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Addressing causal relationship between drinking behavior and metabolic syndrome: one-sample Mendelian randomization analysis.
Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) - 14 May 2024
Yang Chuan-Wei, Wei Yu-Syuan, Li Chia-Ing, Liu Chiu-Shong, Lin Chih-Hsueh, Lin Cheng-Chieh, Li Tsai-Chung
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AIMS: Alcohol drinking is associated with central obesity, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, which further causes metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, prior epidemiological studies on such associations lack experimental evidence for a causal relationship. This study aims to explore the causal relationship between drinking behavior and MetS in Taiwan population by using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis....
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