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Health-related effects of education level: a Mendelian randomization study

2020-02-04

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<h4>Background</h4> A deeper understanding of the causal links from education level to health outcomes may shed a light for disease prevention at a novel and efficient perspective. <h4>Methods</h4> We conducted a wide-angled Mendelian randomization to disentangle the causal role of education level from intelligence for 31 health outcomes and explore to what extent body mass index and smoking mediate the associatio...

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Literature Corpus work: 43b1e2fe-3efb-5cd5-8dec-b46597e3cb49
DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.01.20020008

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