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Assessing the Causal Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure: A meta-analytic Mendelian randomisation study
2024-10-23
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Smoking is a major cause of global morbidity and premature mortality. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS; “second-hand” or “passive smoking”) may also contribute to ill health. However, it is difficult to establish causality given problems of confounding and reverse causation. We applied Mendelian randomisation to investigate evidence for causal effects. To instrument ETS expo...
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- 924f18e7-d0e4-56fa-86cf-51af0b760cfa
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5285519/v1
