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Causal effects of childhood obesity on venous thromboembolism in adulthood: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
6 Jun 2025
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Obesity is a recognized risk factor for VTE in both children and adults. However, the causal relationship between childhood obesity and the risk of VTE in adulthood remains unclear. This study conducted a bidirectional 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using genome-wide association study data to explore this association. The inverse-variance weighting (IVW) method, along with weighted median and...
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