Insights into Causal Cardiovascular Risk Factors from Mendelian Randomization

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PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: This review summarizes major insights into causal risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) by using Mendelian randomization (MR) to obtain unconfounded estimates, contextualized within its strengths and weaknesses.

RECENT FINDINGS: MR studies have confirmed the role of major CVD risk factors, including alcohol, smoking, adiposity, blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, lipids, and possibly inflammation, but added that the relation with alcohol is likely linear, confirmed the role of diastolic blood pressure, identified apolipoprotein B as the major target lipid, and foreshadowed results of some trials concerning anti-inflammatories. Identifying a healthy diet and the role of early life influences, such as birth weight, has proved more difficult. Use of MR has winnowed empirically driven hypotheses about CVD into a set of genetically validated targets of intervention. Greater inclusion of global diversity in genetic studies and the use of an overarching framework would enable even more informative MR studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Current cardiology reports - 25(2023), 2 vom: 14. Feb., Seite 67-76

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schooling, C M [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, J V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Hormones
Interventions
Journal Article
Mendelian randomization
Review
Risk factors

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Date Completed 14.02.2023

Date Revised 14.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11886-022-01829-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351511644