Gut microbiota and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a Mendelian randomization study

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Background A growing number of studies implies a strong association between gut microbiota and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the causal impact between gut microbiota and COPD remains unclear. As a result, we used a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to investigate the connection between gut microbiota and COPD in this study. Methods The largest available genome-wide...

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