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The effect of leptin on blood pressure considering smoking status: a Mendelian randomization study.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Apr 2020
Shen Luqi, Cordero José F, Wang Jia-Sheng, Shen Ye, Zhang Ruiyuan, Qi Yanling, Li Changwei
Abstract excerpt
Studies on leptin and blood pressure (BP) associations have yielded inconsistent findings. The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of genetically determined leptin on BP and to explore whether smoking status modified this effect. We conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis using the baseline data of 3860 participants in the Framingham Heart Study 3rd generation cohort. Pairwise associations among...
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