Article
Alcohol use and cardiometabolic risk in the UK Biobank: a Mendelian randomization study
2020-11-10
Abstract excerpt
Observational studies suggest alcohol use promotes the development of some adverse cardiometabolic traits but protects against others including outcomes related to coronary artery disease. We used Mendelian randomization to explore causal relationships between the degree of alcohol consumption and several cardiometabolic traits in the UK Biobank. We found carriers of the ADH1B Arg47His variant (rs1229984) reporte...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a3b40044-27ec-5e8a-bb3b-18729530d0e7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.10.376400
