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Assessment of the Causal Effects of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Atrial Fibrillation: A Mendelian Randomization Study
11 Feb 2022
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BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are epidemiologically correlated, but the causal relationship between them remains elusive. We aimed to explore the causal relationships between OSA and AF. METHOD: Using both the Finnish biobank and publicly available genome-wide association study data (GWAS), we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to estimate the...
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