TABLE 3.
Information on instrumental variables and their sources for macronutrients.
| Nutrients | First author (year) | Consortium | Sex | Population | PMID | Sample size | IVs (nSNPs) | ||||
| Hyper- | Hypo- | FT4 | TSH | ||||||||
| 1 | Relative intake of carbohydrate | Meddens et al. (29) | Mixeda | 56.7% female | European | 32393786 | 235,391 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 2 | Relative intake of fat | 60.6% female | 268,922 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| 3 | Relative intake of protein | 268,922 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| 4 | Relative intake of sugar | 268,922 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||
aThe data for this study were sourced from more than two Consortiums. The specific information can be found in the original paper.
Hyper-, hyperthyroidism; Hypo-, hypothyroidism.