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Age-specific effects of childhood body mass index on multiple sclerosis risk.
Journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2022
Hone Luke, Jacobs Benjamin M, Marshall Charles, Giovannoni Gavin, Noyce Alastair, Dobson Ruth
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Higher body mass index (BMI) during early life is thought to be a causal risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). We used longitudinal Mendelian randomisation (MR) to determine whether there is a critical window during which BMI influences MS risk. METHODS: Summary statistics for childhood BMI (n ~ 28,000 children) and for MS susceptibility were obtained from recent large genome-wide association...
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