Body Mass Index and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study of 399,536 Individuals | Zendy

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Body Mass Index and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study of 399,536 Individuals

Author(s) -

Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard,

Anne TybjærgHansen,

Børge G. Nordestgaard,

Ruth FrikkeSchmidt

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206

H-Index - 353

eISSN - 1945-7197

pISSN - 0021-972X

DOI - 10.1210/jc.2017-00195

Subject(s) - mendelian randomization , odds ratio , body mass index , hazard ratio , medicine , population , disease , confidence interval , dementia , risk factor , observational study , demography , genetics , biology , genotype , environmental health , sociology , genetic variants , gene

Recently, data on 2,000,000 people established that low body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of dementia. Whether this observational association reflects a causal effect remains to be clarified.

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