A study published in BMCMedicine finds that insomnia symptoms may have broad effects on health and may play a role in multimorbidity. The authors suggest further research and integration of insomnia treatments into the treatment of other diseases.
]. Outcomes included those obtained from responses to baseline and follow-up questionnaires, baseline assessments such as weight, height, blood pressure and bone density measurements, follow-up assessments such as accelerometer measurements and a range of different scans , biomarker measures from blood or urine samples and outcomes from linkage to primary and secondary care, and the national cancer and death registers.
The two-sample MR analysis used the same 129 SNPs and SNP-insomnia symptoms associations used by the MR-PheWAS GRS [], and the SNP-outcome associations were extracted from the GWAS for each outcome. We used the TwoSampleMR package for the two-sample MR analyses, which has a built-in function for harmonising SNPs between the SNP-exposure and SNP-outcome summary results . By default, SNPs are excluded if harmonisation is not possible .
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