Article
The effect of maternal BMI, smoking and alcohol on congenital heart diseases: a Mendelian randomization study
2022-01-29
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) remain a significant cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Epidemiological studies have explored maternal risk factors for offspring CHDs, but few have used genetic epidemiology methods to improve causal inference. <h4>Methods</h4> Three birth cohorts, including 38,662 mother/offspring pairs (N = 319 CHD cases) were included. We used Mendelian randomization...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 185f6a7a-6345-5ec5-a595-45f882b21c01
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.27.22269962
