Associations of mortality with own height using son's height as an instrumental variable

Height is associated with mortality from many diseases, but it remains unclear whether the association is causal or due to confounding by social factors, genetic pleiotropy, or existing ill-health. The authors investigated whether the association of height with mortality is causal by using a son...

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Autores principales: Carslake, David, Fraser, Abigail, Davey Smith, George, May, Margaret, Palmer, Tom, Sterne, Jonathan, Silventoinen, Karri, Tynelius, Per, Lawlor, Debbie A., Rasmussen, Finn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22560304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2012.04.003

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22560304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2012.04.003

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