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Effects of childhood and adult height on later life cardiovascular disease risk estimated through Mendelian randomization
2023-10-12
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Taller individuals are at elevated and protected risk of various cardiovascular disease endpoints. Whether this is due to a direct consequence of their height during childhood, a long-term effect of remaining tall throughout the lifecourse, or confounding by other factors, is unknown. <h4>Methods</h4> We sought to address this by harnessing human genetic data to separate the independent effects...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 17d3b82d-ac55-5ce9-9160-24672a8c5c22
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.12.23296922