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High tobacco consumption lowers body weight: a Mendelian randomization study of the Copenhagen General Population Study.
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International journal of epidemiology [Int J Epidemiol] 2015 Apr; Vol. 44 (2), pp. 540-50. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Mar 16. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background: Conflicting evidence has been found regarding the association between high tobacco consumption and body weight among smokers. We tested the hypothesis that high tobacco consumption is causally associated with low body weight.<br />Methods: We conducted a Mendelian randomization study with a genetic variant in CHRNA3 (rs1051730) as proxy for high tobacco consumption. The cohort consisted of 80,342 participants from the Copenhagen General Population Study, with details on body weight, smoking habits and CHRNA3 genotype, including 15,220 current smokers.<br />Results: In observational analyses, high tobacco consumption was associated with high body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference and waist-hip ratio. In multivariable adjusted models a 1-cigarette/day higher tobacco consumption was associated with 0.05 kg (95% confidence interval 0.02; 0.08) higher body weight, 0.02 kg/m(2) (0.01; 0.02) higher body mass index, 0.10 cm (0.07; 0.12) higher waist circumference and 0.02 cm (0.001; 0.03) higher hip circumference. In contrast, the per-allele increase inCHRNA3 rs1051730 associated with high tobacco consumption was associated with 0.59 kg (0.96; 0.22) lower body weight, 0.23 kg/m(2) (0.33; 0.13) lower body mass index, 0.32 cm (0.74; 0.003) lower waist circumference and 0.45 cm (0.66; 0.24) lower hip circumference. No association was found between tobacco consumption and waist-hip ratio in genetic analysis, or among CHRNA3 genotype and any of the outcome variables in former or never smokers.<br />Conclusions: High tobacco consumption causes lower body weight among current smokers. However, smoking does not seem to affect body shape or fat distribution causally. The lack of association between CHRNA3 genotype and body weight among former smokers and never smokers favours smoking as the causal factor for the observed associations.<br /> (© The Author 2015; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association.)
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- Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Body Mass Index
Denmark epidemiology
Female
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Humans
Male
Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Receptors, Nicotinic genetics
Smoking epidemiology
Tobacco Use epidemiology
Waist-Hip Ratio
Weight Gain genetics
Weight Gain physiology
Weight Loss physiology
Young Adult
Smoking genetics
Weight Loss genetics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1464-3685
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- International journal of epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25777141
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyu276