2023
Polygenic Susceptibility to Hypertension and Blood Pressure Control in Stroke Survivors
Acosta J, Both C, Demarais Z, Conlon C, Leasure A, Torres-Lopez V, de Havenon A, Petersen N, Gill T, Sansing L, Sheth K, Falcone G. Polygenic Susceptibility to Hypertension and Blood Pressure Control in Stroke Survivors. Neurology 2023, 100: e1587-e1597. PMID: 36690452, PMCID: PMC10103110, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000206763.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWorse BP controlUncontrolled blood pressureDiastolic blood pressureBlood pressureStroke survivorsPolygenic risk scoresBP controlPolygenic susceptibilityMean diastolic blood pressureMean systolic blood pressureStroke Prevention TrialBlood pressure controlSystolic blood pressureResistant hypertensionVascular eventsHemorrhagic strokePrevention trialsVitamin InterventionMultivariable modelRisk scoreGenetic predispositionPressure controlLogistic regressionSurvivorsHypertension
2020
Genetically Elevated LDL Associates with Lower Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Falcone GJ, Kirsch E, Acosta JN, Noche RB, Leasure A, Marini S, Chung J, Selim M, Meschia JF, Brown DL, Worrall BB, Tirschwell DL, Jagiella JM, Schmidt H, Jimenez‐Conde J, Fernandez‐Cadenas I, Lindgren A, Slowik A, Gill D, Holmes M, Phuah C, Petersen NH, Matouk CN, Gunel M, Sansing L, Bennett D, Chen Z, Sun LL, Clarke R, Walters RG, Gill TM, Biffi A, Kathiresan S, Langefeld CD, Woo D, Rosand J, Sheth KN, Anderson CD, Consortium F. Genetically Elevated LDL Associates with Lower Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Annals Of Neurology 2020, 88: 56-66. PMID: 32277781, PMCID: PMC7523882, DOI: 10.1002/ana.25740.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIntracerebral hemorrhagePolygenic risk scoresLDL cholesterolLower riskTotal cholesterolICH riskLow-density lipoprotein cholesterol levelsRisk of ICHLipoprotein cholesterol levelsPotential causal roleMendelian randomization analysisAnn NeurolLDL levelsCholesterol levelsICH casesObservational studySD increaseSignificant single nucleotide polymorphismsRisk scoreSignificant associationCholesterolMR analysisInverse correlationRandomization analysisSingle nucleotide polymorphisms