Assessment of causal effects of physical activity on the risk of osteoarthritis: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

• Main Authors: Bin Wang (Author), Yang Liu (Author), Yao-Chen Zhang (Author), Zi-Yi Han (Author), Jia-Lin Hou (Author), Shuai Chen (Author), Chuan Xiang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Growing evidence supports an association between physical activity (PA) and the risk of osteoarthritis (OA), but this may be influenced by confounding and reverse causality. Therefore, we performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to reveal the causal relationsh...