| Title: | Healthy lifestyles are associated with alleviating the single-nucleotide polymorphism-based genetic risks of ischaemic stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage and myocardial infarction |
| Journal: | Stroke and Vascular Neurology |
| Published: | 25 Jun 2024 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38925676/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1136/svn-2024-003257 |
| URL: | https://svn.bmj.com/content/svnbmj/early/2024/06/24/svn-2024-003257.full.pdf |
Publication 11794
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Both genetic and lifestyle factors contribute to myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, including ischaemic stroke (IS) and intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH). We explored how and the extent to which a healthy lifestyle, by considering a comprehensive list, could counteract the genetic risk of those diseases, respectively.</p>
METHODS: 315 044 participants free of stroke and MI at baseline were identified from the UK Biobank. Genetic risk scores (GRS) for those diseases were constructed separately and categorised as low, intermediate and high by tertile. Lifestyle risk scores (LRS) were constructed separately using smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity, dietary patterns and sleep patterns. Similarly, participants were categorised into low, intermediate and high LRS. The data were analysed using Cox proportional hazard models.</p>
RESULTS: Over a median follow-up of 12.8 years, 4642, 1046 and 9485 participants developed IS, ICH and MI, respectively. Compared with participants with low levels of GRS and LRS, the HRs of those with high levels of GRS and LRS were 3.45 (95% CI 2.71 to 4.41), 2.32 (95% CI 1.40 to 3.85) and 4.89 (95% CI 4.16 to 5.75) for IS, ICH and MI, respectively. Moreover, among participants with high GRS, the standardised 14-year rates of IS events were 4.40% (95% CI 3.45% to 5.36%) among those with high LRS. In contrast, it is only 1.78% (95% CI 1.63% to 1.94%) among those with low LRS. Similarly for MI, the high LRS group had standardised rates of 8.60% (95% CI 7.38% to 9.81%), compared with 3.34% (95% CI 3.12% to 3.56%) in low LRS. Among the high genetic risk group of ICH, the rate is reduced by about half compared low LRS to high LRS, although the rate was low for both (0.36% (95% CI 0.31% to 0.42%) and 0.71% (95% CI 0.36% to 1.05%), respectively).</p>
CONCLUSION: Healthy lifestyles were substantially associated with a reduction in the risk of IS, ICH and MI and attenuated the genetic risk of IS, ICH and MI by at least half, respectively.</p>
14 Authors
- Jingru Wang
- Zhenqiu Liu
- Chengxin Hu
- Renjia Zhao
- Dongliang Zhu
- Yijing Xie
- Pengyan Zhang
- Mei Cui
- Kelin Xu
- Genming Zhao
- Li Jin
- Xingdong Chen
- Chen Suo
- Yanfeng Jiang
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
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| 92718 | Deciphering chronic disease - association studies of genome, exposome and phenome |
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