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Mild-to-Moderate Kidney Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses

  • Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration/EPIC-CVD/Million Veteran Program
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
  • University of Cambridge
  • Harvard University
  • Boston University
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Oxford
  • Trakya University
  • Ministry of Health of the Basque Government
  • BioDonostia Research Institute
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
  • National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Heidelberg University 
  • University of Padua
  • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Vermont
  • The Gertner Institute
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Northwell Health System
  • Amsterdam UMC - University of Amsterdam
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanita
  • Lund University
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
  • University of Iceland
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • University of Gothenburg
  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital
  • Imperial College London
  • Erasmus MC
  • The University of Osaka
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • Innsbruck Medical University
  • Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, 89081 Ulm, Germany
  • Technical University of Munich
  • German Centre for Cardiovascular Research
  • University of Washington
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • University of Bristol
  • Population Health Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Umeå University
  • U1179 UVSQ-INSERM Handicap Neuromusculaire: Physiologie, France
  • Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra
  • Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC)
  • Kyushu University
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University Medical Center Utrecht
  • Escuela Andaluza de Salud Publica
  • Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA
  • Consejería de Educación del Gobierno del Principado de Asturias
  • CPO Piedmont-AOU Citta della Salute e della Scienza, 10131 Turin, Italy
  • Kanazawa Medical University
  • Murcia Health Council, Murcia, Spain
  • German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
  • German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Muenchen-Neuherberg, Germany
  • University of Potsdam
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori - Milano
  • Uppsala University
  • Hyblean Association for Epidemiological Research
  • University of Greifswald
  • University of Iowa
  • University College London
  • The George Institute for Global Health
  • University of Tsukuba
  • University of Barcelona
  • Stanford University
  • VA Medical Center
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • VA Atlanta Healthcare System
  • Emory University
  • Alan Turing Institute
  • 6MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Berlin Institute of Health, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Berlin
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
  • Fondazione Human Technopole
  • Cambridge University Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Instituto Biodonostia
  • National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg
  • National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
  • Amsterdam University Medical Centre
  • University of Western Australia
  • Sahlgrenska Academy
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Medizinische Klinik und Deutsches Herzzentrum München der Technischen Universität München
  • ComUE Paris-Saclay
  • Navarra's Health Research Institute (IdiSNA)
  • Utrecht University
  • Azienda Ospedaliera - Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
  • Murcia Health Council
  • German Center for Diabetes Research
  • Stanford University Medical Center
  • VA Boston Healthcare System
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health

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Abstract

Background: End-stage renal disease is associated with a high risk of cardiovascular events. It is unknown, however, whether mild-to-moderate kidney dysfunction is causally related to coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. Methods: Observational analyses were conducted using individual-level data from 4 population data sources (Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, EPIC-CVD [European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Cardiovascular Disease Study], Million Veteran Program, and UK Biobank), comprising 648 135 participants with no history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes at baseline, yielding 42 858 and 15 693 incident CHD and stroke events, respectively, during 6.8 million person-years of follow-up. Using a genetic risk score of 218 variants for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), we conducted Mendelian randomization analyses involving 413 718 participants (25 917 CHD and 8622 strokes) in EPIC-CVD, Million Veteran Program, and UK Biobank. Results: There were U-shaped observational associations of creatinine-based eGFR with CHD and stroke, with higher risk in participants with eGFR values <60 or >105 mL·min-1·1.73 m-2, compared with those with eGFR between 60 and 105 mL·min-1·1.73 m-2. Mendelian randomization analyses for CHD showed an association among participants with eGFR <60 mL·min-1·1.73 m-2, with a 14% (95% CI, 3%-27%) higher CHD risk per 5 mL·min-1·1.73 m-2 lower genetically predicted eGFR, but not for those with eGFR >105 mL·min-1·1.73 m-2. Results were not materially different after adjustment for factors associated with the eGFR genetic risk score, such as lipoprotein(a), triglycerides, hemoglobin A1c, and blood pressure. Mendelian randomization results for stroke were nonsignificant but broadly similar to those for CHD. Conclusions: In people without manifest cardiovascular disease or diabetes, mild-to-moderate kidney dysfunction is causally related to risk of CHD, highlighting the potential value of preventive approaches that preserve and modulate kidney function.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1507-1517
Number of pages11
JournalCirculation
Volume146
Issue number20
Early online date31 Oct 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2022

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Keywords

  • cardiovascular diseases
  • coronary disease
  • kidney diseases
  • stroke

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