title: Circulating adipokine levels and endometrial cancer risk in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Circulating adipokine levels may be associated with endometrial cancer risk, yet few studies have evaluated these markers prospectively.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a nested case-control study of postmenopausal women in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (n = 78,216), including 167 incident endometrial cancer cases and 327 controls that were matched on age, study center, race, study year of diagnosis, year of blood draw, time of day of blood draw, and menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use. Adipokine and estradiol levels were categorized into tertiles (T). ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations of adiponectin, leptin, and visfatin with endometrial cancer risk were estimated by conditional logistic regression, adjusting for known endometrial cancer risk factors, including body mass index (BMI) and circulating estradiol levels.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adiponectin levels were inversely associated with risk of endometrial cancer [ORT3vsT1 = 0.48; 95% CI, 0.29-0.80); Ptrend < 0.01], whereas elevated leptin levels showed a positive association [2.77 (1.60-4.79); Ptrend < 0.01]. These results remained significant after adjustment for estradiol, but not after further adjustment for BMI. When analyses were restricted to non-MHT users, associations of adiponectin and leptin were stronger and remained significant after adjustment for estradiol and BMI [0.25 (0.08-0.75); Ptrend = 0.01 and 4.72 (1.15-19.38); Ptrend = 0.02, respectively]. Nonsignificant positive associations were observed for visfatin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adipokines may influence endometrial cancer risk through pathways other than estrogen-mediated cell growth in postmenopausal women not currently on MHT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding how adipokines influence endometrial cancer risk may help to elucidate biological mechanisms important for the observed obesity-endometrial cancer association.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892, USA. luhnpa@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Patricia
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authors.lastname: Luhn
authors.forename: Cher M
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authors.lastname: Dallal
authors.forename: Jocelyn M
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authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Amanda
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authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Wen-Yi
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authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: James V
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authors.lastname: Lacey
authors.forename: Richard B
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authors.lastname: Hayes
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authors.lastname: Stanczyk
authors.forename: Nicolas
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authors.lastname: Wentzensen
authors.forename: Louise A
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authors.lastname: Brinton
mesh_terms: D054392:Adipokines / Q000097:blood*; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D017698:Postmenopause / Q000097:blood; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D054392:Adipokines; D004958:Estradiol