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Initiation of smoking and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomization study

2020-02-03 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Clinical observations have linked tobacco smoking with increased type 2 diabetes risk (1-5), a major public health concern (6). Mendelian randomization analysis has recently suggested smoking may be a causal risk factor for type 2 diabetes (7). However, this initial association could be mediated by additional causal risk factors correlated with smoking behavior, which have not been investigated to date. We hypothesized that body mass index (BMI) could explain the association between smoking and ...

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