Genetically Predicted Blood Pressure and Cognition in Midlife: A UK Biobank Study

Author:

Lennon Matthew J.12ORCID,Thalamuthu Anbupalam12,Lam Ben Chun Pan123ORCID,Crawford John D.12ORCID,Sachdev Perminder S.124ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Medicine (M.J.L., A.T., B.C.P.L., J.D.C., P.S.S.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

2. Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health (M.J.L., A.T., B.C.P.L., J.D.C., P.S.S.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

3. School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia (B.C.P.L.).

4. Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia (P.S.S.).

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This UK Biobank study uses a mendelian randomization approach to mitigate the variability and confounding that has affected previous analyses of the relationship between measured blood pressure (BP) and cognition and thus delineate the true association between the two. METHODS: Systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP polygenic risk scores (PRSs) were calculated using summary statistics from the International Consortium of Blood Pressure-Genome Wide Association Study (n=299 024). Adjusted nonlinear mixed-effects regression models were used, including a natural splines term for BP-PRS with outcomes of fluid intelligence, reaction time (RT), and composite attention score. Moderating effects of age, sex, and antihypertensive use were assessed in separate models. RESULTS: There were 448 575 participants (mean age, 56.3 years; age range, 37–72 years) included in the analysis after genetic and neurological disease exclusions. Genetic propensity for high SBP had an approximately linear association with worsened fluid intelligence ( P =0.0018). This relationship was significantly moderated by age ( P <0.0001). By contrast, genetic propensity for high and low SBP and diastolic BP predicted worse attention function ( P =0.0099 and P =0.0019), with high PRSs predicting worse function than low PRSs. Genetic propensity for low SBP and diastolic BP was associated with considerably worse RTs, while for high SBP-PRSs, the RT plateaued ( P <0.0001). The relationships between RT and the PRSs were significantly moderated by sex ( P <0.0001) and antihypertensive use ( P <0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Genetic propensity for high and low BP impacts on midlife cognition in subtle ways and differentially affects cognitive domains. While a genetic propensity to low BP may preserve nontimed tests in midlife, it may come at a trade-off with worsened attention scores and RT.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Internal Medicine

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