Variation of all-cause and cause-specific mortality with body mass index in one million Swedish parent-son pairs: An instrumental variable analysis

BACKGROUND: High body mass index (BMI) is associated with mortality, but the pervasive problem of confounding and reverse causality in observational studies limits inference about the direction and magnitude of causal effects. We aimed to obtain estimates of the causal association of BMI with all-ca...

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Autores principales: Wade, Kaitlin H., Carslake, David, Tynelius, Per, Davey Smith, George, Martin, Richard M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31398184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002868

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31398184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002868

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