Article
Genetically determined body mass index and maternal outcomes of pregnancy: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
2022-08-22
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Objective: </h4> Observational studies have described associations between obesity and adverse outcomes of pregnancy. Mendelian randomization (MR) takes advantage of the ‘natural’ genetic randomization to risk of an exposure such as body mass index (BMI) to study the effects of the exposure on outcomes. Similar to randomization in a clinical trial, this limits the potential for confounding and bias. <h4>Design...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 46745457-de15-582d-afee-9dd8c32375b1
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.166118051.11191942/v1
