Cargando…

Systolic Blood Pressure and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Observational studies have shown that elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) is associated with future onset of type 2 diabetes, but whether this association is causal is not known. We applied the Mendelian randomization framework to evaluate the causal hypothesis that elevated SBP increases risk fo...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Aikens, Rachael C., Zhao, Wei, Saleheen, Danish, Reilly, Muredach P., Epstein, Stephen E., Tikkanen, Emmi, Salomaa, Veikko, Voight, Benjamin F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Diabetes Association 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27702834
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db16-0868