Causal Effect of Adiposity Measures on Blood Pressure Traits in 2 Urban Swedish Cohorts: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Background Different adiposity traits may be causally related to hypertension in different ways. By using genetic variants as randomly allocated proxies for studying the effect of modifying adiposity traits, the Mendelian randomization approach can be used to investigate this. Methods and Results In...

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Hauptverfasser:	Alice Giontella, Luca A. Lotta, John D. Overton, Aris Baras, Pietro Minuz, Olle Melander, Dipender Gill, Cristiano Fava
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	Wiley 2021-07-01
Schriftenreihe:	Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Schlagworte:	adiposity blood pressure genetics Mendelian randomization polymorphisms
Online-Zugang:	https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.020405
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