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. 2026 Aug 3;26:517. doi: 10.1186/s12883-026-05246-0

Table 2.

MR estimates for the association of genetically predicted liability to cholecystectomy with ischemic stroke and its subtypes

Outcome No. of SNPs Method P-value OR (95% CI)
Primary outcome
Ischemic stroke 41 MR-Egger 0.104 0.33 (0.09–1.22)
Weighted median < 0.001 0.14 (0.05–0.37)
IVW 0.208 0.57 (0.23–1.37)
Secondary outcomes
Small-vessel ischemic stroke 32 MR-Egger 0.383 0.31 (0.02–4.2)
Weighted median 0.042 0.14 (0.02–0.93)
IVW 0.009 0.10 (0.02–0.57)
Large-artery atherosclerotic ischemic stroke 39 MR-Egger 0.028 0.02 (0.001–0.58)
Weighted median < 0.001 0.01 (0.001–0.14)
IVW 0.023 0.09 (0.01–0.71)
Cardioembolic ischemic stroke 41 MR-Egger 0.110 0.15 (0.02–1.45)
Weighted median 0.054 0.15 (0.02–1.04)
IVW 0.706 0.74 (0.16–3.47)

SNP single nucleotide polymorphism, OR odds ratio, IVW inverse-variance weighted, MR-Egger Mendelian randomization-Egger