[Causal association between depression and stress urinary incontinence: A two-sample bidirectional Mendelian
Cheng-Xiao Jiang1, Wei-Qi Yin1, Jing-Jing Xu2
1Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, China.
Objective:
To investigate the causal correlation between depression and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.
Methods:
We searched the FinnGen Consortium database for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on depression and obtained 23 424 case samples and 192 220 control samples, with the GWAS data on SUI provided by the UK Biobank, including 4 340 case samples and 458 670 control samples. We investigated the correlation between depression and SUI based on the depression data collected from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). We employed inverse-variance weighting as the main method for the MR study, and performed sensitivity analysis to verify the accuracy and stability of the findings.
Results:
Analysis of the data from the UK Biobank and FinnGen Consortium showed that depression was significantly correlated with an increased risk of SUI (P=0.005), but not SUI with the risk of depression (P=0.927). And analysis of the PGC data verified the correlation of depression with the increased risk of SUI (P=0.043).
Conclusion:
Depression is associated with an increased risk of SUI, while SUI does not increase the risk of depression.
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