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. 2022 Sep 2;9:965911. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.965911

Table 2.

The estimations of heterogeneity and horizontal pleiotropy for Mendelian randomization (MR) results.

Outcomes Exposures IVW Egger intercept MR-PRESSO MR-Steiger
Q-statistics P-value Intercept P-value P-value Correct causal direction P-value
Lung cancer overall Retinol 3.127 8.73E-01 1.76E-02 4.71E-01 9.07E-01 True 4.54E-07
Carotene 16.819 1.57E-01 −1.38E-03 9.48E-01 1.65E-01 True 7.18E-10
Vitamin C 10.687 2.20E-01 7.93E-03 7.36E-01 2.14E-01 True 4.25E-07
Vitamin E 14.085 2.28E-01 1.47E-02 5.09E-01 2.53E-01 True 1.61E-09
Squamous cell lung cancer Retinol 6.818 4.48E-01 −5.72E-03 8.78E-01 4.54E-01 True 1.06E-04
Carotene 19.369 8.00E-02 −6.69E-04 9.84E-01 9.90E-02 True 3.33E-05
Vitamin C 18.062 2.08E-02 4.34E-02 2.89E-01 2.40E-02 True 6.15E-04
Vitamin E 6.754 8.19E-01 2.06E-02 4.78E-01 8.43E-01 True 1.46E-08
Lung adenocarcinoma Retinol 2.921 8.92E-01 3.15E-02 4.03E-01 8.92E-01 True 3.89E-06
Carotene 6.018 9.15E-01 −6.64E-03 7.91E-01 9.27E-01 True 1.98E-09
Vitamin C 18.005 2.12E-02 5.55E-03 9.12E-01 2.90E-02 True 1.05E-03
Vitamin E 18.881 6.33E-02 1.69E-02 6.84E-01 6.90E-02 True 1.21E-04

IVW, inverse-variance weighted method; MR-PRESSO, MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier.