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Genetic Predisposition to Diabetes and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Two Stage Mendelian Randomisation Study.
European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery - 1 Mar 2022
Morris Dylan R, Jones Gregory T, Holmes Michael V, Bown Matthew J, Bulbulia Richard, Singh Tejas P, Golledge Jonathan
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OBJECTIVE: Observational studies demonstrate an inverse association between type II diabetes and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) for reasons that are unclear. The aim of this study was to clarify the causal association between type II diabetes predisposition and AAA using Mendelian randomisation. METHODS: Effect estimates for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with diabetes were obtained from the...
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