Variation of all-cause and cause-specific mortality with body mass index in one million Swedish parent-son pairs: An instrumental variable analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>High body mass index (BMI) is associated with mortality, but the pervasive problem of confounding and reverse causality in observational studies limits inference about the direction and magnitude of causal effects. We aimed to obtain estimates of the causal association...

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Main Authors: Kaitlin H Wade, David Carslake, Per Tynelius, George Davey Smith, Richard M Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002868&type=printable
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