Education and coronary heart disease: Mendelian randomisation study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 358, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Tillmann, Taavi ^a   Vaucher, Julien ^b   Okbay, Aysu ^c   Pikhart, Hynek ^a   Peasey, Anne ^a   Kubinova, Ruzena ^d   Pajak, Andrzej ^e   Tamosiunas, Abdonas ^f   Malyutina, Sofia ^g,h   Hartwig, Fernando Pires ^i,j   Fischer, Krista ^k   Veronesi, Giovanni ^l   Palmer, Tom ^m   Bowden, Jack ^j   Davey Smith, George ^j   Bobak, Martin ^a   Holmes, Michael V ^j,n,o,p  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^f LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^g INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^h NOVOSIBIRSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^m LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^p NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

CORONARY DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 85029164186     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j3542     Document Type: Article

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