Susan Martin, Jessica Tyrrell, E Louise Thomas, Matthew J Bown, Andrew R Wood, Robin N Beaumont, Lam C Tsoi, Philip E Stuart, James T Elder, Philip Law, Richard Houlston, Christopher Kabrhel, Nikos Papadimitriou, Marc J Gunter, Caroline J Bull, Joshua A Bell, Emma E Vincent, Naveed Sattar, Malcolm G Dunlop, Ian P M Tomlinson, Sara Lindström, Jimmy D Bell, Timothy M Frayling, Hanieh Yaghootkar
Background: Some individuals living with obesity may be relatively metabolically healthy, whilst others suffer from multiple conditions that may be linked to adverse metabolic effects or other factors. The extent to which the adverse metabolic component of obesity contributes to disease compared to the non-metabolic components is often uncertain. We aimed to use Mendelian randomisation (MR) and specific genetic variants to separately test the causal roles of higher adiposity with and without its adverse metabolic effects on diseases...
January 25, 2022: ELife