Vitamin D and high blood pressure: causal association or epiphenomenon?

SK Kunutsor, S Burgess, PB Munroe… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
… of high blood pressure, but whether this association is causal … systolic blood pressure (SBP)
and diastolic blood pressure (… analysis to investigate the causal relationship between vitamin …

Investigating a potential causal relationship between maternal blood pressure during pregnancy and future offspring cardiometabolic health

G Wang, L Bhatta, GH Moen, LD Hwang, JP Kemp… - …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
… However, although maternal blood pressure (BP) during … studies have indicated that the
associations could be explained by … -wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure

Evidence for reverse causality in the association between blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic kidney disease

W Herrington, N Staplin, PK Judge, M Mafham… - …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
… This study examined the association between blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular
disease among CKD patients with (1) no self-reported history of cardiovascular disease and (2) …

[HTML][HTML] Blood pressure risk associations in heart failure: true effects or inverse causality?

M Böhm, S Ewen - JACC: Heart Failure, 2017 - jacc.org
… Reverse J-curve relationship between on-treatment blood pressure (BP) and all-cause
mortality with a nadir of risk at a blood pressure of 132/74 mm Hg in patients with heart failure. …

Vegetarian diet and blood pressure levels: incidental or causal association?

LJ Beilin, IL Rouse, BK Armstrong, BM Margetts… - The American journal of …, 1988 - Elsevier
… to know whether their lower blood pressures were due to diet … less hypertension and lower
blood pressures compared with … more direct evidence for a blood pressure-lowering effect of a …

[HTML][HTML] The causal associations of circulating amino acids with blood pressure: a Mendelian randomization study

C Lin, Z Sun, Z Mei, H Zeng, M Zhao, J Hu, M Xia… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
… In summary, our findings support the causal association of higher circulating BCAAs levels
and lower glycine levels with higher BP and elevated risk of hypertension. Furthermore, we …

The association between blood pressure and incident Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MC Power, J Weuve, JJ Gagne, MB McQueen… - …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… whether there is a causal association between BP and Alzheimer disease. Selection bias
and reverse causation may account for the suggested inverse association between late-life …

Association of C-reactive protein with blood pressure and hypertension: life course confounding and mendelian randomization tests of causality

GD Smith, DA Lawlor, R Harbord… - … , and vascular biology, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
… that the association between CRP levels with blood pressure and hypertension observed in
many observational studies reflects confounding and reverse causation, rather than a causal

[HTML][HTML] Causal effect of blood pressure on bone mineral density and fracture: a Mendelian randomization study

B He, L Yin, M Zhang, Q Lyu, Z Quan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… identified to have robust association with blood pressure at the GWAS threshold of … blood
pressure (SBP), 41 SNPs for diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and 42 SNPs for pulse pressure (…

Mendelian randomization analysis does not support causal associations of birth weight with hypertension risk and blood pressure in adulthood

Y Zheng, T Huang, T Wang, Z Mei, Z Sun… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… assess the causal association of birthweight with blood pressure and … with hypertension or
blood pressure independent of … First, we estimated the causal association of birth weight with …