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However, it is not clear whether these associations reflect causality. Thus, this study investigated whether there is such a causal relation between elevated glucose and IBD, Crohn\u2019s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We performed a two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) with the independent genetic instruments identified from the largest available genome-wide association study (GWAS) for IBD (5,673 cases; 213,119 controls) and its main subtypes, CD and UC. Summarized data for glucose which included 200,622 cases and glycemic traits including HbA1c and type 2 diabetes(T2DM) were obtained from different GWAS studies. Primary and secondary analyses were conducted by preferentially using the radial inverse-variance weighted (IVW) approach. A number of other meta-analysis approach and sensitivity analyses were carried out to assess the robustness of the results.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We did not find a causal effect of genetically predicted glucose on IBD as a whole (OR 0.858; 95% CI 0.649\u20131.135;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.286). In subtype analyses glucose was also suggestively not associated with Crohn\u2019s disease (OR 0.22; 95% CI 0.04-1.00;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.05) and ulcerative colitis (OR 0.940; 95% CI 0.628\u20131.407;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.762). In the other direction, IBD and its subtypes were not related to glucose and glycemic traits.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This MR study is not providing any evidence for a causal relationship between genetically predicted elevated glucose and IBD as well as it\u2019s subtypes UC and CD. Regarding the other direction, no causal associations could be found. Future studies with robust genetic instruments are needed to confirm this conclusion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12920-024-01923-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,12]],"date-time":"2024-06-12T05:01:55Z","timestamp":1718168515000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["No causal relationship between glucose and inflammatory bowel disease: a bidirectional two-sample mendelian randomization study"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"JiePeng","family":"Cen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kequan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ziyan","family":"Ni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"QiJie","family":"Dai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weipeng","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Heqing","family":"Tao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"1923_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2066","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMra0804647","volume":"361","author":"C Abraham","year":"2009","unstructured":"Abraham C, Cho JH. 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