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ArticleCancer medicine2022

Pre-diagnostic levels of sVEGFR2, sTNFR2, sIL-2Rα and sIL-6R are associated with glioma risk: A nested case-control study of repeated samples.

Wendy Yi-Ying Wu, Florentin Späth, Carl Wibom, Benny Björkblom, Anna M Dahlin, Beatrice Melin

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wendy Yi-Ying WuDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6169-5155
Florentin SpäthDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Carl WibomDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8851-2905
Benny BjörkblomDepartment of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9347-5790
Anna M DahlinDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6754-2571
Beatrice MelinDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Umeå University · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No strong aetiological factors have been established for glioma aside from genetic mutations and variants, ionising radiation and an inverse relationship with asthmas and allergies. Our aim was to investigate the association between pre-diagnostic immune protein levels and glioma risk. We conducted a case-control study nested in the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study cohort. We analysed 133 glioma cases and 133 control subjects matched by age, sex and date of blood donation. ELISA or Luminex bead-based multiplex assays were used to measure plasma levels of 19 proteins. Conditional logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds ratios and 95% CIs. To further model the protein trajectories over time, the linear mixed-effects models were conducted. We found that the levels of sVEGFR2, sTNFR2, sIL-2Rα and sIL-6R were associated with glioma risk. After adjusting for the time between blood sample collection and glioma diagnosis, the odds ratios were 1.72 (95% CI = 1.01-2.93), 1.48 (95% CI = 1.01-2.16) and 1.90 (95% CI = 1.14-3.17) for sTNFR2, sIL-2Rα and sIL-6R, respectively. The trajectory of sVEGFR2 concentrations over time was different between cases and controls (p-value = 0.031), increasing for cases (0.8% per year) and constant for controls. Our findings suggest these proteins play important roles in gliomagenesis.

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GliomaCase-Control StudiesCohort StudiesHumansLogistic ModelsOdds Ratioa nested case-control studycytokinesglioma aetiology

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