Are blood lipids and lipoproteins associated with incidence and mortality risks for CVD and cancer?
The risk pattern of lipid biomarkers for cancer incidence and mortality differs from that of CVD, generally showing inverse associations.
This prospective study demonstrates inverse associations of lipid biomarkers with cancer incidence and mortality, with the exception of positive associations of HDL-C and Lp(a) with breast and prostate cancer risk, respectively. Thus, the observed cancer risk pattern clearly differs from the CVD risk pattern.
Katzke et al. (Fri,) studied this question.