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Dose-response relationship between genetically proxied average blood glucose levels and incident coronary heart disease in individuals without diabetes mellitus.
Diabetologia - 1 Apr 2021
Burgess Stephen, Malik Rainer, Liu Bowen, Mason Amy M, Georgakis Marios K, Dichgans Martin, Gill Dipender
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Our aim was to investigate the relationship between average blood glucose levels and incident CHD in individuals without diabetes mellitus. METHODS: To investigate average blood glucose levels, we studied HbA1c as predicted by 40 variants previously shown to be associated with both type 2 diabetes and HbA1c. Linear and non-linear Mendelian randomisation analyses were performed to investigate...
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