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Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study

Alice R Carter, Dipender Gill, Neil M Davies, Amy E. Taylor, Taavi Tillmann, Julien Vaucher, Robyn E. Wootton, Marcus R. Munafò, Gibran Hemani, Rainer Malik, Sudha Seshadri, Daniel Woo, Stephen Burgess, George Davey Smith, Michael V. Holmes, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Laura D Howe, Abbas Dehghan

BMJ · 2019

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Summary

BMI, systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour mediate a substantial proportion of the protective effect of education on the risk of cardiovascular outcomes and intervening on these would lead to reductions in cases of cardiovascular disease attributable to lower levels of education. However, more than half of the protective effect of education remains unexplained and requires further investigation.

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1136/bmj.l1855
Catalogue ID
BFmoef2ocf-cqhoo4
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