date:Jul 31, 2018
s and heart disease, they cannot prove cause-and-effect. Here, investigators triangulated findings from three different types of genetic analysis to uncover evidence that BMI causes specific differences in cardiovascular measurements.
Our results support efforts to reduce body mass index to within a normal, healthy range from a young age to prevent later heart disease, said Kaitlin H. Wade, B.Sc., Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research associate at the Medical Research Council Integrati