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Evaluation of the relationship between plasma lipids and abdominal aortic aneurysm: A Mendelian randomization study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Weng Lu-Chen, Roetker Nicholas S, Lutsey Pamela L, Alonso Alvaro, Guan Weihua, Pankow James S, Folsom Aaron R, Steffen Lyn M, Pankratz Nathan, Tang Weihong
Abstract excerpt
Studies have reported that higher circulating levels of total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and lower of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol may be associated with increased risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Whether dyslipidemia causes AAA is still unclear and is potentially testable using a Mendelian randomization (MR) approach. We investigated the associations between...
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