Salicylic Acid and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study

Salicylic acid (SA) has observationally been shown to decrease colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid, that rapidly deacetylates to SA) is an effective primary and secondary chemopreventive agent. Through a Mendelian randomization (MR) approach, we aimed to address whether level...

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Main Authors: Aayah Nounu, Rebecca C. Richmond, Isobel D. Stewart, Praveen Surendran, Nicholas J. Wareham, Adam Butterworth, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Demetrius Albanes, John A. Baron, John L. Hopper, Jane C. Figueiredo, Polly A. Newcomb, Noralane M. Lindor, Graham Casey, Elizabeth A. Platz, Loïc Le Marchand, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Christopher I. Li, Fränzel J. B. van Dujinhoven, Andrea Gsur, Peter T. Campbell, Víctor Moreno, Pavel Vodicka, Ludmila Vodickova, Efrat Amitay, Elizabeth Alwers, Jenny Chang-Claude, Lori C. Sakoda, Martha L. Slattery, Robert E. Schoen, Marc J. Gunter, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Hyeong-Rok Kim, Sun-Seog Kweon, Andrew T. Chan, Li Li, Wei Zheng, D. Timothy Bishop, Daniel D. Buchanan, Graham G. Giles, Stephen B. Gruber, Gad Rennert, Zsofia K. Stadler, Tabitha A. Harrison, Yi Lin, Temitope O. Keku, Michael O. Woods, Clemens Schafmayer, Bethany Van Guelpen, Steven Gallinger, Heather Hampel, Sonja I. Berndt, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Annika Lindblom, Alicja Wolk, Anna H. Wu, Emily White, Ulrike Peters, David A. Drew, Dominique Scherer, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister, Ann C. Williams, Caroline L. Relton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Nutrients
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/11/4164