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Genetically predicted frailty index and risk of chronic kidney disease.
Scientific reports - 19 Sept 2024
Chen Hui Juan, Qiu Jie, Guo Yihao, Chen Feng
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Previous findings have reported the association between frailty and chronic kidney disease. However, the causality remains ambiguous. This study aimed to determine whether frailty index is causally associated with chronic kidney disease. We obtained the frailty genome-wide association study (GWAS) data and chronic kidney disease GWAS data from the FinnGen R5 (total n = 216,743; case = 3902, control = 212,841) as...
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