Mendelian randomization study on the causal relationship between chronic hepatitis B/C virus infection and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

This study, using the bidirectional MR, provides preliminary evidence that chronic HBV and HCV infections are not causally related to IPF at the genetic level. However, this conclusion requires support from larger sample sizes in genome-wide association study (GWAS) databases for further MR analysis, and additional clinical studies and animal experiments are needed for validation.