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Serum urate and lung cancer: a cohort study and Mendelian randomization using UK Biobank

Horsfall, LJ; Hall, IP; Nazareth, I; (2021) Serum urate and lung cancer: a cohort study and Mendelian randomization using UK Biobank. Respiratory Research , 22 , Article 179. 10.1186/s12931-021-01768-y. Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Serum urate is the most abundant small molecule with antioxidant properties found in blood and the epithelial lining fluid of the respiratory system. Moderately raised serum urate is associated with lower rates of lung cancer and COPD in smokers but whether these relationships reflect antioxidant properties or residual confounding is unknown. METHODS: We investigated the observational and potentially causal associations of serum urate with lung cancer incidence and FEV1 using one-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) and the UK Biobank resource. Incident lung cancer events were identified from national cancer registries as FEV1 was measured at baseline. Observational and genetically instrumented incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and risk differences per 10,000 person-years (PYs) by smoking status were estimated. RESULTS: The analysis included 359,192 participants and 1,924 lung cancer events. The associations between measured urate levels and lung cancer were broadly U-shaped but varied by sex at birth with the strongest associations in current smoking men. After adjustment for confounding variables, current smoking men with low serum urate (100 µmol/L) had the highest predicted lung cancer incidence at 125/10,000 PY (95%CI 56–170/10,000 PY) compared with 45/10,000 PY (95%CI 38–47/10,000 PY) for those with the median level (300 µmol/L). Raised measured urate was associated with a lower baseline FEV1. The MR results did not support a causal relationship between serum urate and lung cancer or FEV1. CONCLUSIONS: We found no evidence that serum urate is a modifiable risk factor for respiratory health or lung cancer.

Type: Article
Title: Serum urate and lung cancer: a cohort study and Mendelian randomization using UK Biobank
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/s12931-021-01768-y
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-021-01768-y
Language: English
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Keywords: Mendelian randomization, Urate, Lung function, Causal relationship, Lung cancer, Smoking phenotypes
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130459
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