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Genetic Association of Albuminuria with Cardiometabolic Disease and Blood Pressure
13 Sept 2018
Abstract excerpt
Excretion of albumin in urine, or albuminuria, is associated with the development of multiple cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. However, whether pathways leading to albuminuria are causal for cardiometabolic diseases is unclear. We addressed this question using a Mendelian randomization framework in the UK Biobank, a large population-based cohort. We first performed a genome-wide association study for...
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