Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.

Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.

<h4>Background</h4>Obesity is associated with vitamin D deficiency, and both are areas of active public health concern. We explored the causality and direction of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] using genetic markers as instrumental variab...

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Main Authors: Karani S Vimaleswaran, Diane J Berry, Chen Lu, Emmi Tikkanen, Stefan Pilz, Linda T Hiraki, Jason D Cooper, Zari Dastani, Rui Li, Denise K Houston, Andrew R Wood, Karl Michaëlsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Lina Zgaga, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Mark I McCarthy, Josée Dupuis, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E Kleber, Karen Jameson, Nigel Arden, Olli Raitakari, Jorma Viikari, Kurt K Lohman, Luigi Ferrucci, Håkan Melhus, Erik Ingelsson, Liisa Byberg, Lars Lind, Mattias Lorentzon, Veikko Salomaa, Harry Campbell, Malcolm Dunlop, Braxton D Mitchell, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits-GIANT Consortium, Elizabeth A Streeten, Evropi Theodoratou, Antti Jula, Nicholas J Wareham, Claes Ohlsson, Timothy M Frayling, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Timothy D Spector, J Brent Richards, Terho Lehtimäki, Willem H Ouwehand, Peter Kraft, Cyrus Cooper, Winfried März, Chris Power, Ruth J F Loos, Thomas J Wang, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, John C Whittaker, Aroon D Hingorani, Elina Hyppönen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001383
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