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Causal Associations Between Circulating Adipokines and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 17 May 2022
Chen Delong, Zhang Yuxuan, Yidilisi Abuduwufuer, Xu Yi, Dong Qichao, Jiang Jun
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CONTEXT: Observational studies have suggested associations between adipokines and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the roles of certain adipokines remain controversial, and these associations have not yet been ascertained causally. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether circulating adipokines causally affect the risk of CVD using 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR). METHODS: Independent genetic variants strongly...
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