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Causal associations of tobacco smoking with cardiovascular risk factors: a Mendelian randomization analysis of the HUNT Study in Norway.
International journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 2014
Åsvold Bjørn O, Bjørngaard Johan H, Carslake David, Gabrielsen Maiken E, Skorpen Frank, Smith George Davey, Romundstad Pål R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking has been associated with cardiovascular risk factors including adverse serum lipid levels, central obesity and higher resting heart rate, but lower blood pressure and body mass index (BMI). We used a Mendelian randomization approach to study whether these associations may be causal. If smoking affects cardiovascular risk factors then rs1051730 T alleles, predictors of increased smoking...
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