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Associations between vitamin D and disease risk may be attributed to the confounding influence of adiposity during childhood and adulthood: a lifecourse Mendelian randomization study

2022-05-16 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundVitamin D supplements are widely prescribed to help reduce disease risk. However, this strategy is based on findings using conventional epidemiological methods which are prone to confounding and reverse causation. MethodsIn this short report, we leveraged genetic variants which differentially influence body size during childhood and adulthood within a multivariable Mendelian randomization (MR) framework, allowing us to separate the genetically predicted effects of adiposity at these t...

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