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Smoking and heart failure: a Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis.
ESC heart failure - 1 Jun 2021
Lu Yunlong, Xu Zhouming, Georgakis Marios K, Wang Zhen, Lin Hefeng, Zheng Liangrong
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AIMS: We performed a Mendelian randomization (MR) study to elucidate the associations of ever smoking, lifelong smoking duration, and smoking cessation with heart failure (HF) risk. METHODS AND RESULTS: We extracted genetic variants associated with smoking initiation, age at initiation of regular smoking, cigarettes per day, and smoking cessation from the genome-wide association study and Sequencing Consortium of...
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