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Causal effects of obesity on urolithiasis and the mediating role of inflammatory factors: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.
Medicine - 8 May 2026
Chen Jingan, Song Cheng, Chen Chongyang, You Mingpo, Chen Bin
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This study aimed to investigate the genetic causal relationship between obesity and urolithiasis using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach. It further explored the potential mediating role of inflammatory factors in this causal pathway. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, and urolithiasis were obtained from publicly available genome-wide...
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