Assessment of the causal relationship between inflammatory bowel diseases and chronic kidney diseases: A two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization study among European population.

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BACKGROUND: Kidney function can be impaired in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn's diseases (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). However, the causal relationship between IBD and chronic kidney diseases (CKD) remains unclear. METHODS: We determined the causal association between IBD and CKD by performing two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization (MR) analyses. Independent genetic...

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