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Association of blood pressure with cognitive function at midlife: a Mendelian randomization study.
BMC medical genomics - 26 Aug 2020
Sun Daokun, Thomas Emy A, Launer Lenore J, Sidney Stephen, Yaffe Kristine, Fornage Myriam
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BACKGROUND: Whether high blood pressure has a causal effect on cognitive function as early as middle age is unclear. We investigated whether high blood pressure (BP) causally impairs cognitive function at midlife using Mendelian Randomization (MR). METHODS: We applied a two-sample MR approach to investigate the causal relationship between BP and midlife cognitive performance measured by the Digit Symbol...
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