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Relationship Between Glycemia and Cognitive Function, Structural Brain Outcomes, and Dementia: A Mendelian Randomization Study in the UK Biobank.
Diabetes - 1 Oct 2021
Garfield Victoria, Farmaki Aliki-Eleni, Fatemifar Ghazaleh, Eastwood Sophie V, Mathur Rohini, Rentsch Christopher T, Denaxas Spiros, Bhaskaran Krishnan, Smeeth Liam, Chaturvedi Nish
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We investigated the relationship between glycemia and cognitive function, brain structure and incident dementia using bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR). Data were from the UK Biobank (n = ∼500,000). Our exposures were genetic instruments for type 2 diabetes (157 variants) and HbA1c (51 variants) and our outcomes were reaction time (RT), visual memory, hippocampal volume (HV), white matter hyperintensity...
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