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Body mass index and healthcare costs: using genetic variants from the HUNT study as instrumental variables
BACKGROUND: Past studies have found associations between obesity and healthcare costs, however, these studies have suffered from bias due to omitted variables, reverse causality, and measurement error. METHODS: We used genetic variants related to body mass index (BMI) as instruments for BMI; thereby...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8957125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35337320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07597-z |