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Analyses of potential causal contributors to increased waist/hip ratio-associated cardiometabolic disease: A combined and sex-stratified Mendelian randomization study.
Diabetes, obesity & metabolism - 1 Jun 2024
Hashemy Habiba, Nguyen Anthony, Khafagy Rana, Roshandel Delnaz, Paterson Andrew D, Dash Satya
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BACKGROUND: Increased waist/hip ratio (WHR) contributes to type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, dyslipidaemia, hypertension and coronary artery disease, with potential sex-differential effects. Postulated mediators include increased lipid flux, branched-chain amino acids, glycine and glycoprotein acetyl, but their relative contributions and sex-specific impact on WHR-associated cardiometabolic disease (CMD) are not...
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