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Understanding the nature of association between anxiety phenotypes and anorexia nervosa: a triangulation approach.
BMC psychiatry - 7 Oct 2020
Lloyd E Caitlin, Sallis Hannah M, Verplanken Bas, Haase Anne M, Munafò Marcus R
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BACKGROUND: Evidence from observational studies suggests an association between anxiety disorders and anorexia nervosa (AN), but causal inference is complicated by the potential for confounding in these studies. We triangulate evidence across a longitudinal study and a Mendelian randomization (MR) study, to evaluate whether there is support for anxiety disorder phenotypes exerting a causal effect on AN risk....
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