Article
Viral infection and dementia risk: A systematic bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis.
Virus research - 1 Oct 2026
Huang Jian-Wei, Wang Yi-Fei, Zheng Wen-Han, Cui Qian-Qian, Gao Shuang-Qi, Guo Ying
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Viral infections have attracted increasing interest as potentially alterable risk factors for dementia; nonetheless, the results from observational research are variable and prone to confounding bias and reverse causation. This work seeks to systematically explore the potential causal associations between several viral infections and various forms of dementia by a Mendelian randomization methodology...
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- Humans
- Mendelian Randomization Analysis
- Dementia
- Virus Diseases
- Risk Factors
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
