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Impact of body composition on COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: a two-sample multivariable Mendelian randomization study
2020-07-16
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Objectives</h4> Recent studies suggested obesity to be a possible risk factor for COVID-19 disease in the wake of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. However, the causality and especially the role of body fat distribution in this context is still unclear. Thus, using a univariable as well as multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach, we investigated for the first time...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9d2c9c04-dcc1-5d41-8039-a81d83b9f30f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.07.14.20153825
