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Table 2 Heterogeneity and pleiotropy estimates for the associations between dietary salt intake and dementia

From: Causal relationship between dietary salt intake and dementia risk: Mendelian randomization study

Exposures/outcome

Heterogeneity test (MR-Egger)

Pleiotropy test

MR-PRESSO

Q

p-value

Egger intercept

SE

p-value

Causal estimate

SD

p-value

Dietary salt intake/AD

71.262

0.601

 − 0.023

0.010

0.035

0.322

0.229

0.164

Dietary salt intake/VaD

67.110

0.702

 − 0.003

0.031

0.916

0.658

0.636

0.304

Dietary salt intake/LBD

70.986

0.445

0.009

0.016

0.557

 − 0.001

0.351

0.997

Dietary salt intake/dementia

79.219

0.347

 − 0.012

0.008

0.156

0.433

0.180

0.019

  1. Abbreviations: AD Alzheimer’s disease, LBD Lewy body dementia, MR-Egger Mendelian randomization-Egger, MR-PRESSO pleiotropy residual sum and outlier, SE standard error, VaD vascular dementia
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Genes & Nutrition

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