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SUBMITTER: Adams B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7260786 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adams Benjamin B Jacocks Lauren L Guo Hui H
BMC cardiovascular disorders 20200529 1
<h4>Background</h4>BMI has been implicated as a risk factor for heart disease as a whole in multiple studies. Heart attack is one of the common complications of this disease. The aim of this study is to explore if elevated level of BMI causes an increase in the risk of heart attacks.<h4>Methods</h4>We used two Mendelian randomisation (MR) methods: inverse variance weighted estimation and robust adjusted profile score (RAPS) on the basis of summary data of adulthood BMI from Genetic Investigation ...[more]