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Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium.


ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To investigate, using a Mendelian randomisation approach, whether heavier smoking is associated with a range of regional adiposity phenotypes, in particular those related to abdominal adiposity. DESIGN:Mendelian randomisation meta-analyses using a genetic variant (rs16969968/rs1051730 in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 gene region) as a proxy for smoking heaviness, of the associations of smoking heaviness with a range of adiposity phenotypes. PARTICIPANTS:148,731 current, former and never-smokers of European ancestry aged ? 16 years from 29 studies in the consortium for Causal Analysis Research in Tobacco and Alcohol (CARTA). PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES:Waist and hip circumferences, and waist-hip ratio. RESULTS:The data included up to 66,809 never-smokers, 43,009 former smokers and 38,913 current daily cigarette smokers. Among current smokers, for each extra minor allele, the geometric mean was lower for waist circumference by -0.40% (95% CI -0.57% to -0.22%), with effects on hip circumference, waist-hip ratio and body mass index (BMI) being -0.31% (95% CI -0.42% to -0.19), -0.08% (-0.19% to 0.03%) and -0.74% (-0.96% to -0.51%), respectively. In contrast, among never-smokers, these effects were higher by 0.23% (0.09% to 0.36%), 0.17% (0.08% to 0.26%), 0.07% (-0.01% to 0.15%) and 0.35% (0.18% to 0.52%), respectively. When adjusting the three central adiposity measures for BMI, the effects among current smokers changed direction and were higher by 0.14% (0.05% to 0.22%) for waist circumference, 0.02% (-0.05% to 0.08%) for hip circumference and 0.10% (0.02% to 0.19%) for waist-hip ratio, for each extra minor allele. CONCLUSIONS:For a given BMI, a gene variant associated with increased cigarette consumption was associated with increased waist circumference. Smoking in an effort to control weight may lead to accumulation of central adiposity.

SUBMITTER: Morris RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4538266 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium.

Morris Richard W RW   Taylor Amy E AE   Fluharty Meg E ME   Bjørngaard Johan H JH   Åsvold Bjørn Olav BO   Elvestad Gabrielsen Maiken M   Campbell Archie A   Marioni Riccardo R   Kumari Meena M   Korhonen Tellervo T   Männistö Satu S   Marques-Vidal Pedro P   Kaakinen Marika M   Cavadino Alana A   Postmus Iris I   Husemoen Lise Lotte N LL   Skaaby Tea T   Ahluwalia Tarun Veer Singh TV   Treur Jorien L JL   Willemsen Gonneke G   Dale Caroline C   Wannamethee S Goya SG   Lahti Jari J   Palotie Aarno A   Räikkönen Katri K   McConnachie Alex A   Padmanabhan Sandosh S   Wong Andrew A   Dalgård Christine C   Paternoster Lavinia L   Ben-Shlomo Yoav Y   Tyrrell Jessica J   Horwood John J   Fergusson David M DM   Kennedy Martin A MA   Nohr Ellen A EA   Christiansen Lene L   Kyvik Kirsten Ohm KO   Kuh Diana D   Watt Graham G   Eriksson Johan G JG   Whincup Peter H PH   Vink Jacqueline M JM   Boomsma Dorret I DI   Davey Smith George G   Lawlor Debbie D   Linneberg Allan A   Ford Ian I   Jukema J Wouter JW   Power Chris C   Hyppönen Elina E   Jarvelin Marjo-Riitta MR   Preisig Martin M   Borodulin Katja K   Kaprio Jaakko J   Kivimaki Mika M   Smith Blair H BH   Hayward Caroline C   Romundstad Pål R PR   Sørensen Thorkild I A TI   Munafò Marcus R MR   Sattar Naveed N  

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<h4>Objectives</h4>To investigate, using a Mendelian randomisation approach, whether heavier smoking is associated with a range of regional adiposity phenotypes, in particular those related to abdominal adiposity.<h4>Design</h4>Mendelian randomisation meta-analyses using a genetic variant (rs16969968/rs1051730 in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 gene region) as a proxy for smoking heaviness, of the associations of smoking heaviness with a range of adiposity phenotypes.<h4>Participants</h4>148,731 curren  ...[more]

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