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Adiposity and asthma in adults: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation analysis of The HUNT Study

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  • Yi-Qian Sun Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Department of Pathology, Clinic of Laboratory Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital in Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway Center for Oral Health Services and Research Mid-Norway (TkMidt), Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ben Michael Brumpton KG Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital in Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Arnulf Langhammer Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yue Chen Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kirsti Kvaløy Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Xiao-Mei Mai Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Xiao-Mei Mai, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway; xiao-mei.mai{at}ntnu.no
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Sun Y, Brumpton BM, Langhammer A, et al
Adiposity and asthma in adults: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation analysis of The HUNT Study
Thorax 2020;75:202-208.

Publication history

  • Received June 5, 2019
  • Revised September 22, 2019
  • Accepted September 24, 2019
  • First published October 14, 2019.
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March 04, 2020

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