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Causal associations between urinary sodium with body mass, shape and composition: a Mendelian randomization study.
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- Risk of remnant cholesterol and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a mendelian randomization study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Dietary salt intake and kidney function in rural Senegalese populations: a cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
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- The association between salt intake and blood pressure is mediated by body mass index but modified by hypertension: The ELSA-Brasil study.Journal of human hypertension · 2023Article
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Abstract
Observational studies have found associations between urinary sodium (UNa) with obesity, body shape and composition; but the findings may be biased by residual confounding. The objective of this two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study was to analyze their causal associations in both sex-combined and sex-specific models. Genome-wide association studies of UNa, body mass index (BMI), BMI-adjusted waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), body fat (BF) percentage and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were identified. We initially extracted fifty SNPs associated with UNa at significance level of 5 × 10
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