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Frailty and cardiometabolic diseases: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study.
Age and ageing - 2 Nov 2022
Zhu Jiahao, Zhou Dan, Wang Jing, Yang Ye, Chen Dingwan, He Fan, Li Yingjun
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BACKGROUND: Frailty is strongly associated with cardiometabolic diseases in observational studies. However, whether the observed association reflects causality requires clarification. We performed a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation (MR) study to assess the causal relationship of frailty, measured by the frailty index (FI), with coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke and type 2 diabetes (T2D). METHODS: We...
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