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Genetically determined blood pressure, antihypertensive drug classes, and risk of stroke subtypes.
Neurology - 28 Jul 2020
Georgakis Marios K, Gill Dipender, Webb Alastair J S, Evangelou Evangelos, Elliott Paul, Sudlow Cathie L M, Dehghan Abbas, Malik Rainer, Tzoulaki Ioanna, Dichgans Martin
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We employed Mendelian randomization to explore whether the effects of blood pressure (BP) and BP-lowering through different antihypertensive drug classes on stroke risk vary by stroke etiology. METHODS: We selected genetic variants associated with systolic and diastolic BP and BP-lowering variants in genes encoding antihypertensive drug targets from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on 757,601...
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