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Effects of Selenium on Chronic Kidney Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Nutrients - 23 Oct 2022
Fu Shaojie, Zhang Li, Ma Fuzhe, Xue Shuai, Sun Tao, Xu Zhonggao
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BACKGROUND: Previous observational studies have shown that there is a controversial association between selenium levels and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our aim was to assess the causal relationship between selenium levels and CKD using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. METHODS: We used the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to analyze the causal role of selenium levels on CKD risk. The variants...
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