The association between sedentary behavior and infertility: a population-based cross-sectional observational study and Mendelian randomization analysis
Yun Wang, Hongchu Bao, Zhenteng Liu, Qinglan Qu, Dongmei Zhao, Shunzhi He · 2025
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Yun Wang and co-authors examined whether sitting time links to infertility in women in a 2025 study. Past results on the question clashed, so the team attacked it two ways at once. One way used survey data, and the other used gene-based methods that mimic a natural experiment.
The survey arm covered close to three thousand women aged twenty to forty-nine in a United States health survey from 2013 to 2018. Weighted models tested how sitting habits tracked with reported infertility. The gene arm then checked whether the link could be causal rather than a side effect of other traits. Pairing both arms gives readers a stronger verdict than either alone.
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| CREATOR | Yun Wang, Hongchu Bao, Zhenteng Liu, Qinglan Qu, Dongmei Zhao, Shunzhi He |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |