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Salt added to food and body mass index: A bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study.
Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia - 1 Jul 2021
Zhou Long, Wen Xiaoxiao, Peng Yaguang, Zhao Liancheng, Yu Yan
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AIM: This study aimed to determine the causal association between salt added to food and body mass index (BMI) by integrating a summary-level genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. METHODS: We performed two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses using summary statistics of GWAS. Inverse-variance weighted (IVW), maximum likelihood estimation, and random effect model were used to analyse the effect of...
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