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Associations of Blood Caffeine and Genetically Predicted Coffee Consumption with Anthropometric Measures of Obesity: A Two Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
The journal of nutrition, health & aging - 1 Jan 2022
Narayan V P, Yoon S Y
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OBJECTIVES: In observational studies, caffeine has been associated with a lower risk of obesity. However, whether the associations are causal and apply to coffee, which is a mixture of chemical compounds is unclear. DESIGN: Two sample Mendelian randomization study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Genetic instruments predicting caffeine were extracted from an existing GWAS of serum metabolites in 1960 individuals of...
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