Resistant hypertension: detection, evaluation, and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

RM Carey, DA Calhoun, GL Bakris, RD Brook… - …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as above-goal elevated blood pressure (BP) in a
patient despite the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive drug classes, commonly including a …

U-shaped association of uric acid to overall-cause mortality and its impact on clinical management of hyperuricemia

WT Crawley, CG Jungels, KR Stenmark, MA Fini - Redox Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Serum uric acid (SUA) is significantly elevated in obesity, gout, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and
the metabolic syndrome and appears to contribute to the renal, cardiovascular and …

Genome-wide analyses identify KIF5A as a novel ALS gene

A Nicolas, KP Kenna, AE Renton, N Ticozzi, F Faghri… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
To identify novel genes associated with ALS, we undertook two lines of investigation. We
carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 …

A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is
largely based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs …

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

GB Ehret, T Ferreira, DI Chasman, AU Jackson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ
damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 …

Salt sensitivity of blood pressure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

F Elijovich, MH Weinberger, CAM Anderson… - …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension is available at http://hyper. ahajournals. org DOI: 10.1161/HYP.
0000000000000047 e8 Hypertension September 2016 distributed trait. Therefore, defining …

Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

C Pattaro, A Teumer, M Gorski, AY Chu, M Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Reduced glomerular filtration rate defines chronic kidney disease and is associated with
cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide …

Genetic and molecular aspects of hypertension

S Padmanabhan, M Caulfield… - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Until recently, significant advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of blood
pressure regulation arose from studies of monogenic forms of hypertension and …

Genes for blood pressure: an opportunity to understand hypertension

GB Ehret, MJ Caulfield - European heart journal, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Hypertension (HTN) is quantitatively the major cardiovascular risk factor and responsible
for∼ 50% of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure (BP) is also a classical …

The impact of genome‐wide association studies on the pathophysiology and therapy of cardiovascular disease

T Kessler, B Vilne, H Schunkert - EMBO molecular medicine, 2016 - embopress.org
Cardiovascular diseases are leading causes for death worldwide. Genetic disposition jointly
with traditional risk factors precipitates their manifestation. Whereas the implications of a …