Appraising the causal role of smoking in multiple diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Mendelian randomization studies

SC Larsson, S Burgess - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The causal association between cigarette smoking and several diseases
remains equivocal. The purpose of this study was to appraise the causal role of smoking in a …

A meta‐review of “lifestyle psychiatry”: the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders

J Firth, M Solmi, RE Wootton, D Vancampfort… - World …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing academic and clinical interest in how “lifestyle factors” traditionally
associated with physical health may also relate to mental health and psychological well …

Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study

I Magnúsdóttir, A Lovik, AB Unnarsdóttir… - The Lancet Public …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Long-term mental and physical health consequences of COVID-19 (long
COVID) are a persistent public health concern. Little is still known about the long-term …

Elevated C-reactive protein in patients with depression, independent of genetic, health, and psychosocial factors: results from the UK Biobank

MC Pitharouli, SP Hagenaars… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors investigated the pathways (genetic, environmental, lifestyle, medical)
leading to inflammation in major depressive disorder using C-reactive protein (CRP) …

Inference of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with deep learning on raw spirograms identifies new genetic loci and improves risk models

J Cosentino, B Behsaz, B Alipanahi, ZR McCaw… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide,
is highly heritable. While COPD is clinically defined by applying thresholds to summary …

Smoking, alcohol consumption, and 24 gastrointestinal diseases: Mendelian randomization analysis

S Yuan, J Chen, X Ruan, Y Sun, K Zhang, X Wang, X Li… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Background: Whether the positive associations of smoking and alcohol consumption with
gastrointestinal diseases are causal is uncertain. We conducted this Mendelian …

Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression

N Cai, JA Revez, MJ Adams, TFM Andlauer, G Breen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-reported
items for disease case identification, increasingly used in genome-wide association studies …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders, and known risk factors

N Mullins, JE Kang, AI Campos, JRI Coleman… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and nonfatal suicide attempts,
which occur far more frequently, are a major source of disability and social and economic …

Risk factors for human papillomavirus infection, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer: an umbrella review and follow-up Mendelian randomisation …

SJ Bowden, T Doulgeraki, E Bouras, G Markozannes… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Persistent infection by oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) is necessary
although not sufficient for development of cervical cancer. Behavioural, environmental, or …

Exploring causal correlations between inflammatory cytokines and systemic lupus erythematosus: A Mendelian randomization

M Xiang, Y Wang, Z Gao, J Wang, Q Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Previous studies have reported that a few inflammatory cytokines have
associations with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)—for example, IL-6, IL-17, and …