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Genetic evidence links hypertension to accelerated brain aging.
Biogerontology - 16 Jul 2026
Zhu Xiaoyang, Zhang Shuaiqi, Liu Zhiyuan, Nie Ben
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension affects one-third of adults and is a major comorbidity of neurocognitive disorders. The causal relationship, shared genetic architecture, and upstream mechanisms linking hypertension to brain aging remain unclear. Hypertension GWAS datasets from MVP and FinnGen R12 were meta-analyzed as the exposure, and a European-ancestry brain age gap (BAG) GWAS derived from the UK Biobank and LIFE-Adult cohorts...
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