Table 2 Associations between genetic predictors for selected risk factors and LV mass, by sex.

From: The polygenic architecture of left ventricular mass mirrors the clinical epidemiology

Risk factor

Males

P-value

Females

P-value

Change in LV Massa

Change in LV Massa

Inverse-variance weighted average meta-analysis

Body mass index

0.079 (0.015)

1.2 × 10−7

0.147 (0.016)

1.7 × 10−20

Systolic blood pressure

0.004 (0.002)

0.03

0.001 (0.001)

0.29

Coronary artery disease

0.027 (0.013)

0.03

−0.002 (0.014)

0.87

Type 2 diabetes (T2D)

−0.001 (0.008)

0.92b

0.018 (0.008)

0.02

T2D, excluding BMI SNPsd

0.017 (0.015)

0.25

−0.008 (0.015)

0.62

MR-Egger method

Body mass index

0.146 (0.047)

0.002

0.168 (0.050)

0.001

Systolic blood pressure

0.002 (0.007)

0.7

0.000 (0.007)

0.95

Coronary artery disease

0.044 (0.030)

0.15

−0.040 (0.033)

0.23

Type 2 diabetes (T2D)

−0.042 (0.018)

0.02c

0.004 (0.019)

0.82

T2D, excluding BMI SNPsd

−0.026 (0.046)

0.58

0.049 (0.049)

0.31

Weighted median method

Body mass index

0.114 (0.025)

4.0 × 10−6

0.145 (0.029)

6.8 × 10−7

Systolic blood pressure

0.003 (0.003)

0.24

−0.002 (0.003)

0.51

Coronary artery disease

0.037 (0.020)

0.06

−0.020 (0.022)

0.37

Type 2 diabetes (T2D)

−0.017 (0.014)

0.23

0.008 (0.015)

0.6

T2D, excluding BMI SNPsd

0.006 (0.023)

0.81

−0.003 (0.025)

0.9

  1. aEstimates (standard error) represent the changes in the log(LV mass) per unit change of the risk factor.
  2. bHeterogeneity p < 0.05.
  3. cMR-Egger intercept p < 0.05.
  4. dExcludes SNPs associated with BMI at p < 0.05.