However, the absence of an effect of darapladib on PAF levels in this study and previous reports21, 22 as well as the growing debate concerning the pro‐inflammatory function of PLA2G7 through LPC production20, 27, 28 challenge the hypothesis that PLA2G7 is involved in cachexia‐associated thrombosis. This evidence concerns the gene PLA2G7 and Cachexia.