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Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Lifestyle Behaviors With Hypertension: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Dec 2020
van Oort Sabine, Beulens Joline W J, van Ballegooijen Adriana J, Grobbee Diederick E, Larsson Susanna C
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and mortality. To identify targets for the prevention of hypertension and its associated disease burden, we used the 2-sample Mendelian randomization method to investigate the causal associations of 18 cardiovascular risk factors and lifestyle behaviors with hypertension. From European-descent genome-wide association studies, we selected genetic...
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