Education protects against coronary heart disease and stroke independently of cognitive function: evidence from Mendelian randomization

Gill, Dipender; Efstathiadou, Anthoula; Cawood, Kristopher; Tzoulaki, Ioanna; Dehghan, Abbas

doi:10.1093/ije/dyz200

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Education protects against coronary heart disease and stroke independently of cognitive function: evidence from Mendelian randomization

Published in International Journal of Epidemiology • Sep 13, 2019

Authors:

Dipender Gill

Anthoula Efstathiadou

Kristopher Cawood

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that education protects against cardiovascular disease. However, it is not known whether such an effect is independent of cognition. METHODS: We performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to investigate the effect of education and cognition, respectively...

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Mendelian randomization

Medicine

Stroke (engine)

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