Multiomics insight into disease trajectories of cardiometabolic diseases and cancer

Xuanwei Jiang, Guangrui Yang, Meng Chen, Nannan Feng, Lan Xu, Xihao Du, Chunlai Zeng, Victor W Zhong · 2025

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Xuanwei Jiang and co-authors present a 2025 study of how heart-metabolic diseases and cancer combine. Having both is rising as populations age, yet the paths into that state were unmapped. The team follows 429,555 UK Biobank participants for a median of fifteen years. About 106,000 develop a single disease, and about 15,000 develop the combined state. Multi-state models chart the order in which diseases arrive. Blood and molecular profiles are layered onto the paths.

People with both disease families die at rates thirteen to thirty-three percent higher than others. Order matters: heart-metabolic disease first, then cancer, is deadlier than the reverse. Protein scores predict the paths better than other molecular layers. Clinicians get a trajectory map for patients collecting chronic diseases. Prediction models built on proteins could flag who heads for the combined state. The order effect tells follow-up clinics where to watch hardest.

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CREATORXuanwei Jiang, Guangrui Yang, Meng Chen, Nannan Feng, Lan Xu, Xihao Du, Chunlai Zeng, Victor W Zhong
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE66 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12824212

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