ArticleNutrients2022
The Association of Serum L-Carnitine Concentrations with the Risk of Cancer in Chinese Adults with Hypertension.
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- Serum carnitine and cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization study identifying pancreatic cancer as a modifiable metabolic target.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis from γ-butylbetaine and L-carnitine in plasma and urine based on untargeted and targeted metabolomics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- High-throughput metabolomics identifies new biomarkers for cervical cancer.Discover oncology · 2024Article
- The Association of Circulating L-Carnitine, γ-Butyrobetaine and Trimethylamine N-Oxide Levels with Gastric Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe effect of serum L-carnitine (LC) concentrations on cancer risk remains unclear. This study aims to explore the association between serum LC and the risk of incident cancer.
methodsThis is a case-control study, including 574 patients with incident cancer and 574 controls matched in a 1:1 ratio by age, sex, and residence, nested within the China H-Type Hypertension Registry Study (CHHRS). Conditional logistic regression analysis was used to assess the association of serum LC and incident cancer risk.
resultsWhen LC was assessed as quartiles, compared with patients with low LC (Q1), patients in the highest quartile (Q4) had a 33% (OR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.46 to 0.99), 52% (OR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.23 to 0.99), and 39% (OR = 0.61, 95% CI: 0.38 to 0.99) decreased risk of overall, digestive system, and non-digestive system cancer in the adjusted models, respectively. In subgroup analyses, an inverse association of LC with cancer risk was observed in individuals who were overweight (obese), who never drink, who never smoke, and who were female. In the mediation analysis, serum trimethylamine-
conclusionsThis study showed that serum LC concentrations had a protective impact on overall, digestive system, and non-digestive system cancer risk.
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