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Title: Urinary 8-oxodeoxyguanosine, aflatoxin B1 exposure and hepatitis B virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma in Taiwan.

Authors: Wu, Hui-Chen; Wang, Qiao; Wang, Lian-Wen; Yang, Hwai-I; Ahsan, Habibul; Tsai, Wei-Yann; Wang, Li-Yu; Chen, Shu-Yuan; Chen, Chien-Jen; Santella, Regina M

Published In Carcinogenesis, (2007 May)

Abstract: To evaluate the role of oxidative stress and aflatoxin exposure on risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a case-control study nested within a community-based cohort was conducted in Taiwan. Baseline urine samples, collected from a total of 74 HCC cases and 290 matched controls, were used to determine by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays the level of urinary excretion of 8-oxodeoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), a biomarker of oxidative DNA damage and urinary aflatoxin B(1) metabolites, a biomarker of aflatoxin exposure. Multivariate-adjusted linear regression analysis showed that urinary aflatoxin metabolites and gender were significantly associated with level of urinary 8-oxodG among controls. Moreover, after adjustments for potential confounding factors, there was a statistically significant positive dose-response relationship between levels of urinary 8-oxodG and urinary aflatoxin metabolites (P < 0.0001). However, when compared with subjects in the lowest quartile of 8-oxodG, there was a decrease in risk of HCC, with adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of 0.8 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.3-2.0], 0.7 (95% CI 0.3-2.0) and 0.7 (95% CI 0.2-1.7) for subjects in the second, third and fourth quartile, respectively. The combination of level of urinary 8-oxodG below the median and hepatitis B virus infection resulted in an OR of 11.4 (95% CI 3.9-33.3), compared with those with urinary 8-oxodG above the median and hepatitis B virus surface antigen negative. These results suggest that elevated levels of urinary 8-oxodG may be related to increasing level of aflatoxin exposure but may also indicate enhanced repair of oxidative DNA damage and therefore lower risk of HCC.

PubMed ID: 17127712 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Adult; Aflatoxin B1/toxicity*; Aflatoxin B1/urine; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/etiology*; Case-Control Studies; Cohort Studies; DNA Damage; Deoxyadenine Nucleotides/urine*; Female; Hepatitis B/complications*; Humans; Liver Neoplasms/etiology*; Male; Middle Aged; Oxidative Stress; Risk; Sex Factors; Taiwan

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