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Gastroesophageal reflux disease and childhood asthma: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.
Medicine - 10 Apr 2026
Ding Lianfu, Xiong Lijuan, Chen Qingfa, Liu Hong, Li Qing
Abstract excerpt
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) commonly coexists with childhood asthma, but observational evidence is confounded by adiposity, medications, and shared environments, and reverse causation cannot be excluded. Mendelian randomization (MR), using germline variants as instruments, can mitigate confounding and reverse causation. We conducted a bidirectional two-sample MR to clarify whether genetically proxied...
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