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Genetic Predisposition to High Blood Pressure and Out-of-Office Hypertension: Insights from a Population Sample in Liechtenstein
2022-12-22
Abstract excerpt
Genetic predisposition is a risk factor for office hypertension. We tested whether genetic background could identify individuals with ambulatory daytime hypertension in a sample of white Europeans from Liechtenstein. We evaluated two measures of predisposition to hypertension: family history and polygenic risk scores (PRS). Our analytic sample contained 1444 participants aged 25 to 41. Of the participants, 12% had...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 32df4548-adec-525d-8a67-8dbc722cbb5d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.12.21.22282423
