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Mendelian randomization analysis of the causal impact of body mass index and waist-hip ratio on rates of hospital admission

We analyze how measures of adiposity – body mass index (BMI) and waist hip ratio (WHR) – causally influence rates of hospital admission. Conventional analyses of this relationship are susceptible to omitted variable bias from variables that jointly influence both hospital admission and adipose statu...

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Autores principales: Hazewinkel, Audinga-Dea, Richmond, Rebecca C., Wade, Kaitlin H., Dixon, Padraig
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8784824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34894623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101088