Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study.

BACKGROUND: Low plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentration is associated with high arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk, but whether this association is causal is unknown. We used a mendelian randomisation approach to test whether 25(OH)D concentration is causally associated with bl...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Vimaleswaran, K, Cavadino, A, Berry, D, Jorde, R, Dieffenbach, A, Lu, C, Alves, A, Heerspink, H, Tikkanen, E, Eriksson, J, Wong, A, Mangino, M, Jablonski, K, Nolte, I, Houston, D, Ahluwalia, T, van der Most, P, Pasko, D, Zgaga, L, Thiering, E, Vitart, V, Fraser, R, Huffman, J, de Boer, R, Schöttker, B
التنسيق: Journal article
اللغة:English
منشور في: Lancet 2014