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Tea intake and risk of kidney stones: A mendelian randomization study.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) - 1 Mar 2023
Liu Dandan, Wang Jiao, Chen Yanan, Liu Fenfen, Deng Yue, Wang Mengmeng
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OBJECTIVES: Observational studies indicate that tea intake is associated with a decreased risk of kidney stones. Here we performed a mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to evaluate whether this association is causal. METHODS: Forty-four independent genetic variants strongly associated with tea intake were identified from a large genome-wide association study, including 448 060 individuals of the UK Biobank. We...
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