Zinc and Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Risk

• Zinc as a protective factor against COPD: Insights from observational and Mendelian randomization analyses.

  • 2025-08-08
  • Observational · n = 502
  • Medicine 104(32)
  • • Banghui Liu
    • Jinhe Yuan
    • Lu Huan
    • Li Peng

  • PubMed: 40797456
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000043340

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Risk

  • High evidence

  Higher zinc levels were associated with reduced COPD risk, showing significant nonlinear dose-response patterns (P-overall < .001; P-nonlinear = .030).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes