Open AccessThe Association of Waist Circumference and the Risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis
Author(s) -
Churong Lin,
Ling Sun,
Qinchang Chen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s344902
Subject(s) - waist , circumference , medicine , mendelian randomization , deep vein , single nucleotide polymorphism , thrombosis , body mass index , genetics , genetic variants , biology , genotype , geometry , mathematics , gene
In this study, we aimed to use a two sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method to identify a potentially causality between waist circumference and the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).