Abstract:Background The association between C-reactive protein (CRP) and periodontitis has been reported in several observational studies. However, those studies are prone to residual confounding , thus limiting our understanding of the causal conclusions. Therefore, we aimed to assess the relationship between CRP and periodontitis by using the two sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method.
Methods We analyzed the data from two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of European ancestry, including CRP (204,402 indivi… Show more
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