Article
Genetically determined body mass index mediates the effect of smoking on type 2 diabetes risk, but not coronary artery disease risk
2020-02-03
Abstract excerpt
Clinical observations have linked tobacco smoking with increased type 2 diabetes risk (1–5), a major public health concern (6). Mendelian randomization analysis has recently suggested smoking may be a causal risk factor for type 2 diabetes (7). However, this initial association could be mediated by additional causal risk factors correlated with smoking behavior, which have not been investigated to date. We hypothe...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 544b3101-50bb-5f0b-baf2-73d6f69f66ae
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.01.30.20019737
