Authors
Caroline E Dale, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Tom M Palmer, Jon White, David Prieto-Merino, Delilah Zabaneh, Jorgen EL Engmann, Tina Shah, Andrew Wong, Helen R Warren, Stela McLachlan, Stella Trompet, Max Moldovan, Richard W Morris, Reecha Sofat, Meena Kumari, Elina Hyppönen, Barbara J Jefferis, Tom R Gaunt, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Ang Zhou, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Andy Ryan, Renée de Mutsert, Raymond Noordam, Mark J Caulfield, J Wouter Jukema, Bradford B Worrall, Patricia B Munroe, Usha Menon, Chris Power, Diana Kuh, Debbie A Lawlor, Steve E Humphries, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Naveed Sattar, Mika Kivimaki, Jacqueline F Price, George Davey Smith, Frank Dudbridge, Aroon D Hingorani, Michael V Holmes, Juan P Casas
Publication date
2017/6/13
Journal
Circulation
Volume
135
Issue
24
Pages
2373-2388
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Description
Background
The implications of different adiposity measures on cardiovascular disease etiology remain unclear. In this article, we quantify and contrast causal associations of central adiposity (waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index [WHRadjBMI]) and general adiposity (body mass index [BMI]) with cardiometabolic disease.
Methods
Ninety-seven independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms for BMI and 49 single-nucleotide polymorphisms for WHRadjBMI were used to conduct Mendelian randomization analyses in 14 prospective studies supplemented with coronary heart disease (CHD) data from CARDIoGRAMplusC4D (Coronary Artery Disease Genome-wide Replication and Meta-analysis [CARDIoGRAM] plus The Coronary Artery Disease [C4D] Genetics; combined total 66 842 cases), stroke from METASTROKE (12 389 ischemic stroke cases), type 2 diabetes mellitus from DIAGRAM (Diabetes …
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CE Dale, G Fatemifar, TM Palmer, J White… - Circulation, 2017