High tobacco consumption lowers body weight: A Mendelian randomization study of the Copenhagen General Population Study

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 540-550

  Winsløw, Ulrik C ^a,b   Rode, Line ^a   Nordestgaard, Børge G ^a,b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body weight; Fat distribution; General population; Genetic variants; Mendelian randomization; Smoking

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SHAPE; FAT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TOBACCO; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT REDUCTION; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBUNIT ALPHA3;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; DENMARK; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936753148     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu276     Document Type: Article

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