Association of Lipoprotein(a) with arterial stiffness : A Mendelian randomization study

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BACKGROUND: In this study we used Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the potential causal association of lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] levels with pulse wave velocity (PWV).

METHODS: Genetic variants associated with Lp(a) were retrieved from the UK Biobank GWAS (N = 290,497). A non- overlapping GWAS based on a European cohort (N = 7,000) was used to obtain genetic associations with PWV (outcome) and utilized two different measures for the same trait, brachial-ankle (baPWV) and carotid-femoral (cfPWV) PWV. We applied a two-sample MR using the inverse variance weighting method (IVW) and a series of sensitivity analyses for 170 SNPs that were selected as instrumental variables (IVs).

RESULTS: Our analyses do not support a causal association between Lp(a) and PWV for neither measurement [βiwv(baPWV) = -.0005, p = .8 and βiwv(cfPWV) = -.006, p = .16]. The above findings were consistent across sensitivity analyses including weighted median, mode-based estimation, MR-Egger regression and MR-PRESSO.

CONCLUSION: We did not find evidence indicating that Lp(a) is causally associated with PWV, the gold standard marker of arterial stiffness.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

Enthalten in:

European journal of clinical investigation - 54(2024), 5 vom: 18. Apr., Seite e14168

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Simistiras, Alexandros [VerfasserIn]
Georgiopoulos, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Delialis, Dimitrios [VerfasserIn]
Mavraganis, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Oikonomou, Ermioni [VerfasserIn]
Maneta, Eleni [VerfasserIn]
Loutos, Christos [VerfasserIn]
Evangelou, Evangelos [VerfasserIn]
Stamatelopoulos, Kimon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Arterial stiffness
Causal association
General population
Journal Article
Lipoprotein(a)
Lp(a)
Mendelian randomization
PWV

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Date Completed 17.04.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/eci.14168

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367295814