Maria G. Kakkoura, Robin G. Walters, Robert Clarke, Zhengming Chen, Huaidong Du
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arising from K. Luo et al. Nature Metabolism https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00961-1 (2024)
In the 2024 January issue of Nature Metabolism, Luo et al.1 reported an inverse association between milk intake and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) among individuals who were lactase non-persistent (LNP), as determined by the lactase (LCT) rs4988235 homozygous GG genotype. The authors also reported inverse cross-sectional associations of milk intake with several T2D-related metabolic traits, including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in LNP individuals. However, in their analyses, no adjustments for BMI/WC were done in assessing the association between milk intake and T2D risk, which may lead to biased results. Given the established causal relevance of adiposity for incident T2D2,3 and the observed inverse associations of milk intake with adiposity in the study population, it is therefore important to establish whether the associations of milk consumption, milk-associated gut bacteria and milk-associated metabolites with T2D risk are confounded, or mediated, by BMI/WC in the paper by Luo et al.
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