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Causal effects of inflammatory bowel diseases on the risk of kidney stone disease: a two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization
12 Oct 2023
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Existing epidemiological observational studies have suggested interesting but inconsistent clinical correlations between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), and kidney stone disease (KSD). Herein, we implemented a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the causal relationship between IBD and KSD. METHODS: Data on...