Cardio-oncology & otherCohort study

Polygenic Risk for Cardiometabolic and Cardiovascular Disease in a Multiethnic Cohort of Breast Cancer Survivors

JACC CardioOncolPublication date not resolved

  • Prospective cohort study
  • multiethnic

Authors' conclusion

Although there may be potential value of PGS in predicting the risk for CMD and CVD events in women with histories of breast cancer, current PGS performance is limited.

Study context

Population
Women with histories of breast cancer (breast cancer survivors)27 polygenic scores (PGS), 12 outcomes
Participants
3,620 women
Exposure
PGS-added or combined models vs clinical covariates-only models
Outcome
Performance of PGS for CVD-related traits to predict incident cardiometabolic disorder (CMD) and CVD

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Associations of PGS with incident CMD and CVD events

Significant associations between PGS and cardiometabolic disorder (CMD) or cardiovascular disease (CVD) events after Bonferroni correction

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Observational data: associations, not effects.

Further findings

PGS performance by cardiotoxic cancer treatment

For some outcomes, PGS performed worse among patients who received cardiotoxic cancer treatments

Original publication

Polygenic Risk for Cardiometabolic and Cardiovascular Disease in a Multiethnic Cohort of Breast Cancer Survivors. JACC CardioOncol. doi:10.1016/j.jaccao.2025.10.004

Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it