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High Blood Pressure and Risk of Dementia: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study in the UK Biobank
27 Dec 2020
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Background Findings from randomized controlled trials have yielded conflicting results on the association between blood pressure (BP) and dementia traits. We tested the hypothesis that a causal relationship exists between systolic BP (SBP) and/or diastolic BP (DBP) and risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods We performed a generalized summary Mendelian randomization (GSMR) analysis using summary statistics of a...
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