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Causal effects of BMI, waist circumference, and body fat percentage on the risk of bladder cancer: A Mendelian randomization study.
Medicine - 17 May 2024
Qiu Yang, Jiang Zheng, Zhang Jianqiang
Abstract excerpt
The causal role of body mass index (BMI) in bladder cancer (BC) by Mendelian randomization (MR) has not yet been reported. We evaluated the causal associations between the measures of obesity (BMI, waist circumference, and body fat percentage) and BC. We conducted a 2-sample MR analysis to assess the genetic effect of measures of obesity on BC. The BMI dataset (GWAS ID: ukb-b-2303) comprised 454,884 Europeans,...
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