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Protein Nutritional Status and Frailty: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
The Journal of nutrition - 11 Jan 2022
Tomata Yasutake, Wang Yunzhang, Hägg Sara, Jylhävä Juulia
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BACKGROUND: Observational studies have suggested that better protein nutritional status may contribute to prevention of frailty. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine this hypothesis using a Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. METHODS: We conducted a two-sample MR study using GWAS summary statistics data of the UK Biobank. We applied genetically predicted serum albumin as a primary exposure measure and serum total...
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