Chemopreventive Effects of Concomitant or Individual Use of Statins, Aspirin, Metformin, and Angiotensin Drugs: A Study Using Claims Data of 23 Million Individuals.
Ching-Huan WangChih-Wei HuangPhung Anh NguyenMing-Chin LinChih-Yang YehMd Mohaimenul IslamAnnisa Ristya RahmantiHsuan-Chia YangPublished in: Cancers (2022)
Despite previous studies on statins, aspirin, metformin, and angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs)/angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), little has been studied about all their possible combinations for chemoprevention against cancers. This study aimed to comprehensively analyze the composite chemopreventive effects of all the combinations. In this case-control study, health records were retrieved from claims databases of Taiwan's Health and Welfare Data Science Center. Eligible cases were matched at a 1:4 ratio with controls for age and sex. Both cases and controls were categorized into 16 exposure groups based on medication use. A total of 601,733 cancer cases were identified. Cancer risks (denoted by adjusted odds ratio; 99% confidence interval) were found to be significantly decreased: overall risk of all cancers in statin-alone (0.864; 0.843, 0.886), aspirin-alone (0.949; 0.939, 0.958), and ACEIs/ARBs (0.982; 0.978, 0.985) users; prostate (0.924; 0.889, 0.962) and female breast (0.967; 0.936, 1.000) cancers in metformin-alone users; gastrointestinal, lung, and liver cancers in aspirin and/or ACEIs/ARBs users; and liver cancer (0.433; 0.398, 0.471) in statin users. In conclusion, the results found no synergistic effect of multiple use of these agents on cancer prevention. Use of two (statins and aspirin, statins and metformin, statins and ACEIs/ARBs, and aspirin and ACEIS/ARBs) showed chemopreventive effects in some combinations, while the use of four, in general, did not.
Keyphrases
- angiotensin converting enzyme
- angiotensin ii
- low dose
- cardiovascular disease
- cardiovascular events
- papillary thyroid
- antiplatelet therapy
- public health
- healthcare
- vascular smooth muscle cells
- childhood cancer
- squamous cell
- coronary artery disease
- prostate cancer
- mental health
- health insurance
- big data
- acute coronary syndrome
- lymph node metastasis
- anti inflammatory drugs
- social media
- human health
- type diabetes
- young adults
- health information
- risk assessment
- low density lipoprotein
- benign prostatic hyperplasia
- drug induced