The timing of adiposity and changes in the life course on the risk of cancer

Z Fang, EL Giovannucci - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Excess body weight has been established as a risk factor for at least twelve cancer sites,
though questions remain as to the timing of associations for adiposity and cancer risk …

Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer: 21st century advances, gaps to address through interdisciplinary science

MB Terry, GA Colditz - Cold Spring …, 2023 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Research methods to study risk factors and prevention of breast cancer have evolved
rapidly. We focus on advances from epidemiologic studies reported over the past two …

[HTML][HTML] Mammographic density mediates the protective effect of early-life body size on breast cancer risk

M Vabistsevits, G Davey Smith, TG Richardson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The unexplained protective effect of childhood adiposity on breast cancer risk may be
mediated via mammographic density (MD). Here, we investigate a complex relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Separating the effects of life course adiposity on diabetic nephropathy: a comprehensive multivariable Mendelian randomization study

H Zhang, QY Zhang, YJ Song, LJ Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Aims Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) of obesity and diabetic nephropathy (DN) risk
used small sample sizes or focused on a single adiposity metric. We explored the …

[HTML][HTML] The causal effect of dietary composition on the risk of breast cancer: a Mendelian randomization study

H Dong, X Kong, X Wang, Q Liu, Y Fang, J Wang - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer has become the most common malignancy among women, posing a severe
health risk to women worldwide and creating a heavy social burden. Based on current …

The genetic causal association between educational attainment and risk of 12 common musculoskeletal disorders: a two‐sample Mendelian randomization

K Sun, Y Ming, Y Wu, Y Zeng, J Xu, L Wu… - Orthopaedic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In numerous observational studies, there has been an indication that educational
attainment (EA) can impact the intensity of pain and disability resulting from chronic …

Reassessing the causal role of early-life adiposity in breast cancer: could the apparent inverse associations be a manifestation of survival bias?

CM Schooling, K Fei, MB Terry - International Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Hao et al. 1 present an extensive examination of the role of adiposity in female breast cancer
(BC) using comprehensive Mendelian randomization (MR) methods. Previous MR studies of …

Debiased Multivariable Mendelian Randomization

Y Wu, H Kang, T Ye - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.00307, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multivariable Mendelian randomization (MVMR) uses genetic variants as instrumental
variables to infer the direct effect of multiple exposures on an outcome. Compared to …

[HTML][HTML] The mediating role of mammographic density in the protective effect of early-life adiposity on breast cancer risk: a multivariable Mendelian randomization …

M Vabistsevits, GD Smith, TG Richardson… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Observational studies suggest that mammographic density (MD) may have a role in the
unexplained protective effect of childhood adiposity on breast cancer risk. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] 饮茶与恶性肿瘤发病风险关联的孟德尔随机化研究

刘春语, 程思, 庞元捷, 余灿清, 裴培, 陈君石… - 中华流行病学 …, 2023 - html.rhhz.net
目的采用孟德尔随机化(MR) 方法探讨饮茶与恶性肿瘤发病之间的关联. 方法利用中国慢性病
前瞻性研究中100 639 名具有全基因组基因分型数据的研究对象, 剔除基线时患有恶性肿瘤的 …