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18-03-2024 | Gastric Cancer | Letter to the Editor
Ethnic‑specific associations between body mass index and gastric cancer: a Mendelian randomization study in European and Korean populations
Authors:
Zhe Wang, Da Li, Cheng Zhang
Published in:
Gastric Cancer
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Issue 3/2024
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Excerpt
We read with interest the article by Lee et al., which reported race-specific associations between body mass index (BMI) and gastric cancer (GC) in European and Korean populations [
1]. This study showed a linear association between BMI and GC in people of European ancestry and a nonlinear U-shaped association between BMI and GC in people of Korean descent. However, the trial appeared to suffer from some data issues as well as methodological biases. …