Is elevated systolic blood pressure associated with risk for valvular heart disease?

What The Study Did: A group of 329,237 men and women of white Bristish ancestry with genetic data in the UK Biobank and blood pressure measurements were included in a study that examined the association between systolic blood pressure and risk of major valvular heart disease.

Authors: Kazem Rahimi, M.D., F.R.C.P., of the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2019.2202)

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