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Our study employs Mendelian randomization (MR) to determine the causal relationship between serum 25OHD concentration and bone mineral density (BMD), bone turnover markers (BTMs), and vertebral fracture.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_jtim-2026-0058_s_010\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      MR analysis indicated no correlation between hereditary 25OHD levels and BMD, procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide (P1NP), carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen (CTX), and vertebral fractures (all\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &gt; 0.05) in all participants. In participants aged 55\u201392 years, MR analysis revealed that low serum 25OHD levels (odds ratio [OR] = 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.07\u20131.79;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.014) are causally associated with increased P1NP levels. In sensitivity analysis, MR-Egger regression and the Weighted-median estimator indicated no significant pleiotropy.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_jtim-2026-0058_s_011\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings suggest that baseline 25OHD levels are unlikely to have a large effect on risk of vertebral fractures. Larger MR studies and randomized controlled trials are required to investigate small effects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/jtim-2026-0058","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,22]],"date-time":"2026-06-22T15:04:18Z","timestamp":1782140658000},"page":"610-619","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Circulating serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and bone mineral density and osteoporotic vertebral fractures: A Mendelian randomization study"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Lihui","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Shanghai Clinical Research Center of Bone Disease, Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiao","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Shanghai Clinical Research Center of Bone Disease, Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4339-1617","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenlin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Shanghai Clinical Research Center of Bone Disease, Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-7733-7983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chao","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Shanghai Clinical Research Center of Bone Disease, Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026082612595945867_j_jtim-2026-0058_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Pludowski P, Takacs I, Boyanov M, Belaya Z, Diaconu CC, Mokhort T, et al. 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