Lung cancer and its epigenetics association with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / 中华医学遗传学杂志

Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Development of lung cancer involves both genetic and environment factors. In addition to genetic alterations, epigenetic mechanism is closely involved in pathogenesis of lung cancer. Characterized by an abnormal persistent inflammatory response to noxious environmental stimulation, COPD has shown to increase the susceptibility for lung tumorigenesis in previous research. Current research on epigenetics of lung cancer and COPD has focused on aberrant DNA methylation, histone acetylation and non-coding RNAs regulation. The aberrant DNA methylation associated with lung cancer and COPD has included overexpression of DNA methyltransferase, global DNA hypomethylation and DNA hypermethylation in promoter regions, while histone acetylation and histone methylation are the major changes for histone modification, in which histone acetyltransferases, histone deacetylases, histone methyltransferases and histone demethylases play the most important roles. RNA interference and microRNAs are both hot topics of research on non-coding RNAs regulation. Understanding of concurrent epigenetic alterations in the pathogenesis of lung cancer and COPD may facilitate identification of specific therapeutic targets and development of effective treatment.

Dietary iodine intake level of adult population in coastal and inland areas of Zhejiang province / 中国地方病学杂志

Objective To evaluate the dietary iodine intake level of population in coastal and inland areas of Zhejiang province.Methods The cluster sampling method was applied to select Zhoushan,Ningbo and Taizhou cities from Zhejiang province as coastal areas,to select Jinhua,Quzhou and Lishui cities from Zhejiang province as inland areas,and two counties(districts) were randomly selected in each chosen city,three sub-districts(towns) were randomly selected in each chosen counties (districts),then one community (village) was randomly selected in each chosen sub-districts(towns).Adult residents aged greater than 18 were selected as investigation subjects,their dietary iodine intake in the past 24 hours was investigated,and the Food composition table” was inquired to get the data of dietary iodine intake.One hundred copies of residential edible salt samples and drinking water samples in each of the selected community (village) were collected to detect salt iodine and water iodine by direct titrimetric and spectrophotometric method,respectively.Results The mean of adult residents' dietary iodine intake in Zhejiang coastal area was 267.76 μg/d,which was less than that in inland area (429.05 μg/d,t =- 6.90,P ＜0.05),and the means of adult residents' dietary iodine intake from drinking water,laver and fish(5.75,69.72,5.61 μg/d,respectively) in coastal area were higher than those in inland areas(3.25,35.27,3.43 μg/d,respectively,t =21.73,3.92,4.08,all P ＜ 0.05),however,the means of adult residents' dietary iodine intake from salt,kelp and other food (166.81,3.04,16.82 μg/d,respectively) in coastal areas were less than those in inland areas (355.15,6.14,25.81 μg/d,respectively,t =- 8.76,- 5.49,- 18.56,all P ＜ 0.05).In coastal areas,the proportion which was less than estimated average requirement of iodine(EAR,120 μg/d) was 46.48％ (1029/2214),the ratio which was higher than the maximum tolerable intake of iodine(UL,1000 μg/d) was 3.34％ (74/2214),and the average contribution rate of dietary intake of iodine in salt was 62.30％(166.81/267.76).While in inland areas,the corresponding proportions were 7.61％ (171/2246),2.80％ (63/2246) and 82.78％ (355.15/429.05),respectively.Conclusions The dietary iodine intake in Zhejiang inland areas has reached the recommended nutrient intake levels of the Chinese Nutrition Society,but there is a certain degree of insufficient iodine intake in population of the coastal areas.