Examining Overweight and Obesity as Risk Factors for Common Mental Disorders Using Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Genotype-Instrumented Analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 421-429

  Kivimäki, Mika ^a,b,c   Jokela, Markus ^a,c   Hamer, Mark ^a   Geddes, John ^a   Ebmeier, Klaus ^a,d   Kumari, Meena ^a   Singh Manoux, Archana ^a,d,e   Hingorani, Aroon ^a   Batty, G David ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; body mass index; depression; Mendelian randomization analysis; mental health; obesity; risk factors

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DATA INTERPRETATION; GENOTYPE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT; WOMENS HEALTH;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79551690783     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq444     Document Type: Article

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