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The Effect of obesity on dental caries: A mendelian randomization study
2024-08-30
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Clinical and retrospective studies suggest obesity increases the risk of dental caries, but causal mechanisms remain unclear. We employed the Mendelian randomization (MR) method to explore obesity's potential causal link to dental caries. Methods We extracted body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) data from the IEU OpenGWAS project database. These data were used...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5a8ab541-fdbb-558e-acf4-396c136064b7
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4739550/v1
