A causal relationship between childhood obesity and risk of osteoarthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis.

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PURPOSE: It has been found that childhood obesity (CO) may play an important role in the onset and progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Thus we conducted this mendelian randomisation analysis (MR) to evaluate the causal association between childhood obesity and osteoarthritis. METHODS: Instrumental variables (IVs) were obtained from publicly available genome-wide association study datasets. The leave-one-out...

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