Using genetic variation for establishing causality of cardiovascular risk factors: overcoming confounding and reverse causality

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in developed countries, despite the decline of CVD mortality over the last two decades. From observational, predictive research, efforts have been made to find causal risk factors for CVD. However, in recent years, some of these finding...

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Main Authors: Smit, R. A. J., Trompet, S., de Craen, A. J. M., Jukema, J. W.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954928/