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Association of uric acid genetic risk score with blood pressure: the Rotterdam study.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Nov 2014
Sedaghat Sanaz, Pazoki Raha, Uitterlinden Andre G, Hofman Albert, Stricker Bruno H Ch, Ikram M Arfan, Franco Oscar H, Dehghan Abbas
Abstract excerpt
High levels of serum uric acid are associated with hypertension in observational studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of uric acid gene variants with blood pressure. We studied 5791 participants aged ≥55 years from the Rotterdam Study. Thirty gene variants identified for serum uric acid level were used to compile genetic risk score (GRS). We used linear regression models to...
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