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Disentangling the relationship between depression and chronic widespread pain: A Mendelian randomisation study.
Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Jun 2023
Zhao Sizheng Steven, Holmes Michael V, Alam Uazman
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OBJECTIVE: Depression and chronic widespread pain (CWP) frequently coexist, but whether depression is an independent causal risk factor for CWP, and/or vice versa, remains unclear. We investigated the bidirectional causal relationship between depression and CWP. METHODS: We performed a two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) study to estimate the causal relationship between genetically predicted depression...
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