Smoking, alcohol consumption and risk of Dupuytren’s disease: a Mendelian randomization study

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BACKGROUND: The correlation between smoking and alcohol consumption and the development of Dupuytren's disease (DD) has been acknowledged. However, the definitive causal relationship between these two factors and DD remains elusive. In order to establish a causal connection, we employed the two-sample Mendelian randomization method to evaluate the relationship between smoking and alcohol consumption and DD....

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