Association of vitamin D with risk of type 2 diabetes: A Mendelian randomisation study in European and Chinese adults.

Association of vitamin D with risk of type 2 diabetes: A Mendelian randomisation study in European and Chinese adults.

<h4>Background</h4>Observational studies have reported that higher plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations are associated with lower risks of diabetes, but it is unclear if these associations are causal. The aim of this study was to test the relevance of 25(OH)D for type 2 di...

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Main Authors: Ling Lu, Derrick A Bennett, Iona Y Millwood, Sarah Parish, Mark I McCarthy, Anubha Mahajan, Xu Lin, Fiona Bragg, Yu Guo, Michael V Holmes, Shoaib Afzal, Børge G Nordestgaard, Zheng Bian, Michael Hill, Robin G Walters, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen, Robert Clarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002566

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