Article
Vitamin D and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Mendelian Randomization Analyses in the Copenhagen Studies and UK Biobank.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Sept 2018
Lund-Nielsen Josephine, Vedel-Krogh Signe, Kobylecki Camilla Jannie, Brynskov Jørn, Afzal Shoaib, Nordestgaard Børge G
Abstract excerpt
Context: Vitamin D may be a modifiable risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Objectives: We tested the hypothesis that plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are causally associated with risk of Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Design, Setting, Patients, and Interventions: We used a Mendelian randomization design to study 120,013 individuals from the Copenhagen City Heart Study, the...
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