Causal Relationship Between Physical Activity and Thymic Tumors Mediated by Circulating Cytokines: A Mendelian Randomization Mediation Analysis
Yulin Sun, Shuaipeng Hao, Dario Marchetti · 2024
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Yulin Sun, Shuaipeng Hao, and Dario Marchetti test whether exercise protects against thymic tumors in a 2024 study. These tumors are rare growths in the chest, and exercise is known to cut chronic disease risk and help immunity. A direct trial is hard, so they used a genetics-based method that mimics a natural experiment, drawing on large European datasets.
Gene-predicted activity was linked to clearly lower risk of both benign and malignant thymic tumors. Part of the protection for benign tumors ran through a receptor for an immune signal, which accounted for a small share of the effect. Checks found no sign of bias in the method. The authors frame exercise as true prevention here.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yulin Sun, Shuaipeng Hao, Dario Marchetti |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |