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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2020 Nov 30;143(9):895–906. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049819

Table 2.

Sensitivity analyses of linear MR estimates using data from the primary analytic sample (N= 47,407 from 5 cohorts) or from two-sample estimates from different genome-wide association studies.

Outcome Tested Univariable MR
of SBP
Multivariable** MR of
SBP (independent of
DBP)
Two-sample$ Multivariable
MR of SBP (independent of
DBP)
Two-sample$
Multivariable MR of DBP
(independent of SBP)
HR
(95%
CI)
P-value HR
(95% CI)
P-value OR
(95% CI)
P-value OR
(95% CI)
P-value
MI 1.04
(1.03-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.02-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.02-1.04)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.01-1.05)
0.002
Coronary artery disease 1.04
(1.02-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.04
(1.02-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.03-1.04)
<0.0001* 1.01
(1.00-1.02)
0.2
Fatal CHD 1.02
(1.00-1.04)
0.04 1.04
(1.02-1.06)
<0.0001* NA NA
Heart failure 1.03
(1.01-1.04)
<0.0001* 1.04
(1.03-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.02
(1.01-1.02)
<0.0001* 1.01
(1.00-1.02)
0.3
Ischemic stroke 1.05
(1.03-1.06)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.02-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.02-1.04)
<0.0001* 1.01
(0.99-1.02)
0.3
Coronary revascularization 1.04
(1.03-1.05)
<0.0001* 1.03
(1.02-1.05)
<0.0001* NA NA
All-cause mortality 1.01
(1.00-1.02)
0.002 1.01
(1.01-1.02)
0.0004* NA NA

CHD: Coronary heart disease, CI: Confidence intervals, HR: Hazard ratio, MI: Myocardial infarction, MR: Mendelian randomization, NA: Not applicable, OR: Odds Ratio

*

Significant after Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons

**

Adjusted for age, sex, two genotype principal components, the dummy variable for each substudy, and DBP

Adjusted for age, sex, two genotype principal components, the dummy variable for each substudy, and SBP

$

Two-sample multivariable MR analysis based on summary statistics from different GWAS of the exposure and the outcome