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Mediators of the association between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a two-step multivariable Mendelian randomisation study.
Diabetologia - 1 Aug 2022
Zhang Jia, Chen Zekai, Pärna Katri, van Zon Sander K R, Snieder Harold, Thio Chris H L
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major health burden disproportionately affecting those with lower educational attainment (EA). We aimed to obtain causal estimates of the association between EA and type 2 diabetes and to quantify mediating effects of known modifiable risk factors. METHODS: We applied two-step, two-sample multivariable Mendelian randomisation (MR) techniques using SNPs as genetic...
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