ISSLS Prize in Clinical Science 2020. 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 BMI would have causal effects on back pain. We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the causal effect of body mass index (BMI) on the outc...

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Veröffentlicht in:European spine journal 2020-04, Vol.29 (4), p.686-691
Hauptverfasser: Elgaeva, Elizaveta E., Tsepilov, Yakov, Freidin, Maxim B., Williams, Frances M. K., Aulchenko, Yurii, Suri, Pradeep
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