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. 2019 Dec 29;7(1):e000872. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000872

Table 4.

The impact of glycemic traits on prostate cancer risk in Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer-Associated Alterations in the Genome consortium using Mendelian randomization

All SNPs Inverse variance weighting with multiplicative random effects MR-Egger Weighted median
OR 95% CI I2 OR 95% CI Intercept Intercept
p value
OR 95% CI
Glucose (mmol/L) (n=11) 0.93 0.73 to 1.17 0.464 0.73 0.41 to 1.29 0.008 0.38 0.88 0.70 to 1.12
HbA1c (%) (n=19) 0.90 0.58 to 1.40 0.575 1.26 0.32 to 4.92 −0.005 0.62 1.03 0.65 to 1.63
Type 2 diabetes (n=112) 1.02 0.97 to 1.07 0.690 0.98 0.86 to 1.10 0.003 0.50 0.97 0.93 to 1.02
Excluding pleiotropic SNPs*
Glucose (mmol/L) (n=10) 1.01 0.81 to 1.24 0.263 0.75 0.48 to 1.19 0.01 0.20 0.90 0.72 to 1.13
Type 2 diabetes (n=111) 1.02 0.97 to 1.07 0.686 0.98 0.87 to 1.11 0.003 0.48 0.98 0.93 to 1.03

*No pleiotropic SNPs identified for HbA1c.

SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.