Blood pressure and mortality: using offspring blood pressure as an instrument for own blood pressure in the HUNT study

Given that observational associations may be inaccurate, we used offspring blood pressure (BP) to provide alternative estimates of the associations between own BP and mortality. Observational associations between BP and mortality, estimated as hazard ratios (HRs) from Cox regression, were compared t...

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Main Authors: Wade, Kaitlin H, Carslake, David, Ivar Nilsen, Tom, Timpson, Nicholas J, Davey Smith, George, Romundstad, Pål
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510525/