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The causal effects of hypothyroidism on cardiovascular disease: Bidirectional and multivariable Mendelian randomization study.
Journal of diabetes investigation - 1 Mar 2026
Bai Xuan, Sun Mengyi, Han Xu
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BACKGROUND: Whether hypothyroidism and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are causally related remains ambiguous. A bidirectional and multivariable two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) approach was employed to elucidate these associations. METHODS: All genome-wide association study (GWAS) data were obtained from the IEU Open GWAS project. For the MR estimates, inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR-Egger regression,...
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