Journal
CANCERS
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers12030747
Keywords
angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs); lung cancer; air pollutant
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- Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Clinical Trial and Research Center of Excellence [MOHW108-TDU-B-212-133004]
- China Medical University Hospital [DMR-107-192, CMU107-ASIA-19]
- MOST Clinical Trial Consortium for Stroke [MOHW109-TDU-B-212-114004]
- Tseng-Lien Lin Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan
- Katsuzo and Kiyo Aoshima Memorial Funds, Japan
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Background: Direct evidence of lung cancer risk in Asian users of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) is lacking. Methods: The ACEI cohort comprised 22,384 patients aged >= 18 years with a first prescription of ACEI. The comparison angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) cohort consisted of age-, sex- and comorbidity-matched patients at a ratio of 1:1. The primary outcome was the incidence of lung cancer, which was evaluated using a proportional hazard model. Results: The overall incidence rates of lung cancer in the ACEI and ARB cohorts were 16.6 and 12.2 per 10,000 person-years, respectively. The ACEI cohort had a significantly higher risk of lung cancer than the ARB cohort (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]. = 1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI]. = 1.11-1.67). Duration-response and dose-response analyses revealed that compared with patients who did not receive ACEIs, patients who received ACEIs for more than 45 days per year (aHR = 1.87; 95% CI = 1.48-2.36) and patients who received more than 540 defined daily doses of ACEIs per year (aHR =1.80; 95% CI = 1.43-2.27) had a significantly higher risk of lung cancer. The cumulative incidence of lung cancer was also significantly higher in the ACEI cohort than in the ARB cohort (log-rank test, p = 0.002). Conclusions: ACEI use is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer compared with ARB use. Patients using ARBs have a significantly lower risk of lung cancer than non-ARB users.
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