Open AccessAssociation of Body Mass Index With Cardiometabolic Disease in the UK Biobank
Author(s) -
Donald M. Lyall,
Carlos CelisMorales,
Joey Ward,
Stamatina Iliodromiti,
Jana Anderson,
Jason M. R. Gill,
Daniel J. Smıth,
U. E. Ntuk,
Daniel Mackay,
Michael V. Holmes,
Naveed Sattar,
Jill P. Pell
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
jama cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2380-6591
pISSN - 2380-6583
DOI - 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.5804
Subject(s) - mendelian randomization , medicine , body mass index , confounding , biobank , population , odds ratio , type 2 diabetes , cohort study , cohort , demography , diabetes mellitus , bioinformatics , environmental health , endocrinology , genetics , sociology , genetic variants , gene , genotype , biology
Higher body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for cardiometabolic disease; however, the underlying causal associations remain unclear.
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