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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Autores principales: Edwards, Christina Hansen, Vie, Gunnhild Åberge, Kinge, Jonas Minet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research
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

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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

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