抗血栓剂使用与肝细胞癌风险之间的关联:一个两样本的门德尔随机化分析
Fengyi Yang1,2, Ouyang Li3,4, Benjian Gao1,2
1Department of General Surgery (Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery), The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
|October 22, 2024
概括
抗血栓剂可以降低肝细胞癌 (HCC) 的风险,肝癌是一种常见的肝癌. 这项研究使用门德尔的随机化来调查因果关系,发现这些药物与较低的HCC风险相关的证据.
科学领域:
- 肝病学 肝病学是一种肝病学.
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 药物遗传学 药物遗传学
背景情况:
- 肝细胞癌 (HCC) 是全球普遍存在的一种主要肝癌.
- 观察性研究表明抗血栓剂可能降低HCC风险,但因果关系未被证明.
- 门德尔随机化被用来研究抗血栓剂使用与HCC风险之间的因果关系.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定抗血栓剂使用对患肝细胞癌的风险的因果关系.
- 在孟德尔随机化框架中利用遗传变异作为抗血栓剂使用的仪器变量.
主要方法:
- 进行了两样本的孟德尔随机化分析.
- 使用了全基因组关联研究总结统计数据,用于欧洲裔个体的抗血栓剂使用.
- 逆方差加权 (IVW),加权中位数,MR-Egger和加权模式方法用于因果推断.
- 敏感性分析包括MR-PRESSO,MR-Egger,Cochran的Q测试和Leave-one-out分析以评估强度.
主要成果:
- 与使用抗血栓剂相关的10个单核酸多态 (SNP) 被确定为仪器变量.
- 所有应用的门德尔随机化方法都表明,抗血栓剂使用与HCC风险之间存在显著的反向因果关系.
- 在IVW方法中,该协会的赔率比为0.444 (95%CI:0.2790.707,P = 0.001).
- 没有检测到异质性或水平形的证据,支持发现的有效性.
结论:
- 这项研究提供了反向因果关系的证据,即抗血栓剂的使用与肝细胞癌的风险之间存在反向因果关系.
- 研究结果表明,抗血栓性药物对HCC发展具有潜在的保护作用.
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