Bidirectional causal relationship between depression and frailty: a univariate and multivariate Mendelian randomisation study

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BACKGROUND: cumulative evidence from cohort studies suggested that there were inconsistent conclusions as to whether there was a bidirectional association between depression and frailty. Therefore, this study used a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) study to investigate the causal relationship between depression and frailty. METHODS: we performed univariate and multivariate bidirectional MR...

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