Body Mass Index and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study of 399,536 Individuals

Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

Body Mass Index and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study of 399,536 Individuals

2017

Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

Context: Recently, data on 2,000,000 people established that low body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of dementia. Whether this observational association reflects a causal effect remains to be clarified.

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Endocrinology
Disease
Internal medicine
Body mass index
Mendelian randomization
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
Odds ratio
Population study
Confounding
Risk factor
Population
Demography
Dementia

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