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Elevated Blood Pressure Increases Pneumonia Risk: Epidemiological Association and Mendelian Randomization in the UK Biobank.
Med (New York, N.Y.) - 12 Feb 2021
Zekavat Seyedeh M, Honigberg Michael, Pirruccello James P, Kohli Puja, Karlson Elizabeth W, Newton-Cheh Christopher, Zhao Hongyu, Natarajan Pradeep
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Small studies have correlated hypertension with pneumonia risk; whether this is recapitulated in larger prospective studies, and represents a causal association, is unclear. METHODS: We estimated the risk for prevalent hypertension with incident respiratory diseases over mean follow-up of 8 years among 377,143 British participants in the UK Biobank. Mendelian randomization of blood pressure on...
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