Abstract:Background: Education might be causal to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We triangulated cohort and genetic evidence to consolidate the causality between education and T2DM.
Methods: We obtained observational evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Self-reporting educational attainment was categorised as high (post-secondary and higher), middle (secondary), and low (below secondary or no academic qualifications) in 6,787 community-dwelling individuals aged ≥50 years without diabetes at… Show more
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