Sex Differences in the Association of Genome-Wide Systolic Blood Pressure Polygenic Risk Score With Hypertension

Circ Genom Precis Med. 2023 Dec;16(6):e004259. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.123.004259. Epub 2023 Oct 9.

Authors

Naman S Shetty¹, Akhil Pampana¹, Nirav Patel¹, Peng Li², Krishin Yerabolu¹, Mokshad Gaonkar³, Garima Arora¹, Pankaj Arora^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Disease (N.S.S., A.P., N.P., K.Y., G.A., P.A.), University of Alabama at Birmingham.
² School of Nursing (P.L.), University of Alabama at Birmingham.
³ Department of Biostatistics (M.G.), University of Alabama at Birmingham.
⁴ Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, AL (P.A.).

No abstract available

Keywords: blood pressure; blood pressure polygenic risk score; hypertension; sex differences.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Blood Pressure / genetics
Female
Genetic Risk Score*
Genome-Wide Association Study
Humans
Hypertension* / genetics
Male
Sex Characteristics

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