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Exploring the pathways linking fasting insulin to coronary artery disease: a proteome-wide Mendelian randomization study.
BMC medicine - 30 May 2025
Huang Xin, Zhao Jie V
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BACKGROUND: Insulin is known to be associated with a higher risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), but molecular mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to explore protein-mediated pathways linking fasting insulin to CAD using Mendelian randomization (MR). METHODS: This MR study examined the association between fasting insulin and CAD using genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from MAGIC and...
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