Association of alcohol consumption with allergic disease and asthma: a multi-centre Mendelian randomization analysis.
Tea SkaabyTuomas O KilpeläinenAmy E TaylorYuvaraj MahendranAndrew WongTarunveer S AhluwaliaLavinia PaternosterStella TrompetDavid J StottClaudia FlexederAng ZhouGuy BrusselleAyesha SajjadLies LahousseHenning TiemeierChristian Theil HaveBetina H ThuesenLine Lund KårhusLine Tang MøllehaveKatja Biering Leth-MøllerDaniel Mønsted ShabanzadehArturo Gonzalez-QuintelaChris PowerElina HyppönenDiana KuhRebecca HardyThomas MeitingerJ Wouter JukemaUwe VölkerMatthias NauckHenry VölzkeNele FriedrichTobias N BontenRaymond NoordamDennis O Mook-KanamoriJanne Schurmann TolstrupChristian TaubeAnnette PetersHarald GrallertKonstantin StrauchHolger SchulzNiels GrarupTorben HansenOluf PedersenStephen BurgessMarcus R MunafoAllan LinnebergPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2018)
In observational analyses, ever-drinking versus not drinking was positively associated with hay fever and negatively associated with asthma. However, the Mendelian randomization results were not consistent with these associations being causal.