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. 2019 Apr 7;40(14):1158-1166.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx254.

UK Biobank: opportunities for cardiovascular research

Thomas J Littlejohns  1 , Cathie Sudlow  2 , Naomi E Allen  1 , Rory Collins  1
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UK Biobank: opportunities for cardiovascular research

Thomas J Littlejohns et al. Eur Heart J. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Absolute risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality by usual systolic blood pressure and age at risk in 5000, 50 000, and 500 000 participants. Unpublished figure containing data from the Prospective Studies Collaboration, obtained through personal communication. CI, confidence interval; IHD, ischaemic heart disease.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Overview of the genetic markers measured on the UK Biobank Axiom Array. ADME, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion; ApoE, apolipoprotein E; CNV, copy number variants; eQTL, expression quantitative trait loci; GWAS, genome-wide association study; HLA, human leucocyte antigen; k, thousand; KIR, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors; MAF, minor allele frequency; mtDNA, mitochondrial DNA; NHGRI, National Human Genome Research Institute.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Plane selection for measures of distensibility and pulse wave velocity in ascending, proximal, descending, and distal descending aorta obtained from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (measured at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research).
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