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Mental health as a mediator of the association between educational inequality and cardiovascular disease: A Mendelian randomisation study
2020-09-11
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<h4>Background</h4> Education is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease. Several mediators for this association have been established but a significant proportion of the protective effect remains unaccounted for. Mental health is a proposed mediator, but current evidence is mixed and subject to bias from confounding factors and reverse causation. Mendelian randomisation (MR) is an instrumental variable t...
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- f4803786-e16c-5286-8e5b-3659a29e11e5
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- 10.1101/2020.09.10.20191825