Evaluating the impact of childhood BMI on the risk of coronavirus disease 2019: A Mendelian randomization study

Abstract

Although the correlation between childhood obesity and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been explored, the causality of these remains uncertain. Thus, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to identify the causal association.

Keywords

• childhood
• body mass index
• mendelian randomization
• covid-19