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SynthesisNutrients2024

No Evidence of an Association between Genetic Factors Affecting Response to Vitamin A Supplementation and Myopia: A Mendelian Randomization Study and Meta-Analysis.

Xiaotong Xu, Nianen Liu, Weihong Yu

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Synthesis in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Vitamin A and Its Related Diseases.Food science & nutrition · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xiaotong XuPeking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7822-2338
Nianen LiuFifth School of Clinical Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100730, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1009-8905
Weihong YuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between vitamin A supplementation and myopia has been a topic of debate, with conflicting and inconclusive findings. We aimed to determine whether there is a causal relationship between vitamin A supplementation and the risk of myopia using Mendelian randomization (MR) and meta-analytical methods. Genetic variants from the UK Biobank and FinnGen studies associated with the response to vitamin A supplementation were employed as instrumental variables to evaluate the causal relationship between vitamin A supplementation and myopia. Fixed-effects meta-analysis was then used to combine MR estimates from multiple sources for each outcome. The meta-analysis of MR results found no convincing evidence to support a direct causal relationship between vitamin A supplementation and myopia risk (odds ratio (OR) = 0.99, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.82-1.20,

Indexed as

Dietary SupplementsMendelian Randomization AnalysisMyopiaVitamin AHumansOdds RatioPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRisk FactorsVitamin Amendelian randomizationmeta-analysismyopiavitamin A

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PMID38931287
PMCPMC11206965

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