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Do genetic risk scores for body mass index predict risk of phobic anxiety? Evidence for a shared genetic risk factor.
Psychological medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Walter S, Glymour M M, Koenen K, Liang L, Tchetgen Tchetgen E J, Cornelis M, Chang S-C, Rewak M, Rimm E, Kawachi I, Kubzansky L D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Obesity and anxiety are often linked but the direction of effects is not clear. METHOD: Using genetic instrumental variable (IV) analyses in 5911 female participants from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS, initiated 1976) and 3697 male participants from the Health Professional Follow-up Study (HPFS, initiated 1986), we aimed to determine whether obesity increases symptoms of phobic anxiety. As...
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