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Vitamin D and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Bi-directional Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
EBioMedicine - 1 Feb 2018
Wang Ningjian, Chen Chi, Zhao Li, Chen Yi, Han Bing, Xia Fangzhen, Cheng Jing, Li Qin, Lu Yingli
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BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in many cross-sectional studies. However, the causality between them has not been established. We used bi-directional mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to explore the causal relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and NAFLD. METHODS: 9182 participants were included from a survey in East China from 2014 to...
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