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Causal associations between urinary sodium with body mass, shape and composition: a Mendelian randomization study.
Scientific reports - 15 Oct 2020
Feng Qi, Yuan Shuai, Yang Qian, Lu Yingchang, Loos Ruth J F, Li Gloria H Y, Fei Yue, Tsoi Man Fung, Cheung Ching Lung, Cheung Bernard M Y
Abstract excerpt
Observational studies have found associations between urinary sodium (UNa) with obesity, body shape and composition; but the findings may be biased by residual confounding. The objective of this two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study was to analyze their causal associations in both sex-combined and sex-specific models. Genome-wide association studies of UNa, body mass index (BMI), BMI-adjusted waist-to-hip...
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