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Assessing the impact of blood pressure in the development of inflammatory bowel disease.
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) - 1 May 2022
Xu Xia, Ye Ding, Liu Bin, Yang Ying, Chen Ying, Qian Yu, Mao Yingying, Sun Xiaohui
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential causal relationships between blood pressure and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by using the bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) approach. Summary-level data for blood pressure was extracted from the hitherto largest genome-wide study (GWAS) with 759 601 participants of European-descent. We used 56 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as...
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