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Influence of blood pressure on pneumonia risk: Epidemiological association and Mendelian randomisation in the UK Biobank
2020-04-23
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<h4>Objectives</h4> To determine whether elevated blood pressure influences risk for respiratory infection. <h4>Design</h4> Prospective, population-based epidemiological and Mendelian randomisation studies. <h4>Setting</h4> UK Biobank. <h4>Participants</h4> 377,143 self-identified British descent (54% women; median age 58 years) participants in the UK Biobank. <h4>Main outcome measures</h4> First incident pneumoni...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 81d57a29-a68a-513f-8e9e-e0fa1d6a5484
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.19.20071936