• Li Xiao, Xiaoting Mo, Huiyan Li, Xiangmei Weng, Danxin Wang, and Wei Zhang.
• Department of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Feb 23; 103 (8): e37206e37206.

AbstractSeveral studies have reported that antioxidants exert both preventive and inhibitory effects against tumors. However, their causal effects on small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) remain controversial. Herein, we explored the causal effects of 6 antioxidants on SCLC by combining a genome-wide association study database and the Mendelian randomization (MR) approach. We obtained antioxidant genetic variance data for 6 exposure factors: carotene, vitamin A (retinol), selenium, zinc, vitamin C, and vitamin E, from the genome-wide association study database. The instrumental variables for exposure factors and SCLC outcomes were integrated by screening instrumental variables and merging data. Two-sample MR was used to analyze the causal relationship between exposure and outcomes. Finally, we examined the heterogeneity and horizontal pleiotropy of the MR analysis by performing multiple sensitivity analyses. We found a causal relationship between carotene and SCLC using two-sample MR analysis and sensitivity analysis (P = .02; odds ratio = 0.73; 95% confidence interval: 0.55-0.95). In contrast, there was no causal relationship between other examined antioxidants and SCLC. We found that diet-derived circulating antioxidants could afford protection against SCLC, and carotene is the causal protective factor against SCLC.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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