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Iron Status and NAFLD among European Populations: A Bidirectional Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
Nutrients - 8 Dec 2022
Liu Cenqin, Chen Yishu, Zhang Zhixin, Xie Jiarong, Yu Chaohui, Xu Lei, Li Youming
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Background and aim: Previous observational studies have suggested a paradoxical relationship between iron status and the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Observed associations in these epidemiological studies fail to show sequential temporality and suffer from problems of confounding. Therefore, we performed a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) to evaluate the relationship...
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