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Dairy consumption, systolic blood pressure, and risk of hypertension: Mendelian randomization study.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) - 16 Mar 2017
Ding Ming, Huang Tao, Bergholdt Helle Km, Nordestgaard Børge G, Ellervik Christina, Qi Lu
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Objective To examine whether previous observed inverse associations of dairy intake with systolic blood pressure and risk of hypertension were causal.Design Mendelian randomization study using the single nucleotide polymorphism rs4988235 related to lactase persistence as an instrumental variable.Setting CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology) Consortium.Participants Data from 22...
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