Evaluating the risk of sepsis attributing to obesity: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.

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BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a reaction to infection with high morbidity and mortality. It has been noted that patients with obesity were more likely to suffer from sepsis. However, the causality remains elucidating, as reverse causality and residual confounding could not be largely mitigated in conventional observational studies. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risk of sepsis attributed to obesity phenotypes including body...

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