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The role of glycaemic, lipid, blood pressure and obesity risk factors as mediators of the effect of height on Coronary Artery Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Mendelian Randomisation Study.
Eirini Marouli, Del Greco M. Fabiola, Christina M. Astley…·Zhihong Zhu
This paper uses Mendelian Randomisation to show that height reduces coronary artery disease risk independently of BMI, lipid, and blood pressure, but has no direct effect on type 2 diabetes risk after adjusting for BMI.
DOI 10.1101/468918