Assessment of moderate coffee consumption and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

doi:10.1093/ije/dyx236

Assessment of moderate coffee consumption and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

Department of Clinical Medicine

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Abstract

Background: Coffee consumption has been shown to be associated with various health outcomes in observational studies. However, evidence for its association with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is inconsistent and it is unclear whether these associations are causal. Methods: We used single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with (i) coffee and (ii) caffeine consumption to perform Mendelian randomization (MR) on EOC risk. We conducted a two-sample MR using genetic data on 44 062 individuals of European ancestry from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), and combined instrumental variable estimates using aWald-type ratio estimator. Results: For all EOC cases, the causal odds ratio (COR) for genetically predicted consumption of one additional cup of coffee per day was 0.92 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.79, 1.06]. The COR was 0.90 (95% CI: 0.73, 1.10) for high-grade serous EOC. The COR for genetically predicted consumption of an additional 80mg caffeine was 1.01 (95% CI: 0.92, 1.11) for all EOC cases and 0.90 (95% CI: 0.73, 1.10) for high-grade serous cases. Conclusions: We found no evidence indicative of a strong association between EOC risk and genetically predicted coffee or caffeine levels. However, our estimates were not statistically inconsistent with earlier observational studies and we were unable to rule out small protective associations.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	47
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	450-459
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0300-5771
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx236
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

Keywords

Caffeine
Causality
Coffee
Mendelian randomization
Ovarian cancer

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Assessment of moderate coffee consumption and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

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