Examining Causal Effects of Body Mass Index on Back Pain: A Mendelian Randomization Study

PURPOSE: Measures of body fat accumulation are associated with back pain, but a causal association is unclear. We hypothesized that body mass index (BMI) would have causal effects on back pain and chronic back pain. To test the hypothesis, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study...

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Veröffentlicht in:Eur Spine J
Hauptverfasser: Elgaeva, Elizaveta E., Tsepilov, Yakov, Freidin, Maxim B., Williams, Frances M. K., Aulchenko, Yurii, Suri, Pradeep
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7108959/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31797139
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-019-06224-6
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