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Genetically predicted visceral adipose tissue and risk of nine non-tumour gastrointestinal diseases: evidence from a Mendelian randomization study.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 May 2023
Sun Xingang, Yuan Yifan, Chen Lu, Ye Mei, Zheng Liangrong
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BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have linked visceral adipose tissue (VAT) to gastrointestinal diseases. However, it remains unclear whether these associations reflect causal relationships. METHODS: We used a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to elucidate the causal effect of VAT on nine non-tumour gastrointestinal diseases. The inverse-variance weighted method was used to perform the MR analyses....
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