Zinc and Reduced COPD-Related Infection

• 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 COPD-Related Infection

  • High evidence

  MR analysis confirmed Zinc's causal protective role in reducing COPD-related infections (OR = 0.979, P = .042), independent of confounders.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes