Journal of Epidemiology
Online ISSN : 1349-9092
Print ISSN : 0917-5040
ISSN-L : 0917-5040
Original Article
Assessing the Relationship Between High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein and Kidney Function Employing Mendelian Randomization in the Japanese Community-based J-MICC Study
Ryosuke FujiiAsahi HishidaTakeshi NishiyamaMasahiro NakatochiKeitaro MatsuoHidemi ItoYuichiro NishidaChisato ShimanoeYasuyuki NakamuraTanvir Chowdhury TurinSadao SuzukiMiki WatanabeRie IbusukiToshiro TakezakiHaruo MikamiYohko NakamuraHiroaki IkezakiMasayuki MurataKiyonori KurikiNagato KuriyamaDaisuke MatsuiKokichi ArisawaSakurako Katsuura-KamanoMineko TsukamotoTakashi TamuraYoko KuboTakaaki KondoYukihide MomozawaMichiaki KuboKenji TakeuchiKenji Wakai
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ジャーナル オープンアクセス
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2022 年 32 巻 11 号 p. 483-488

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Background: Inflammation is thought to be a risk factor for kidney disease. However, whether inflammatory status is either a cause or an outcome of chronic kidney disease remains controversial. We aimed to investigate the causal relationship between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using Mendelian randomization (MR) approaches.

Methods: A total of 10,521 participants of the Japan Multi-institutional Collaborative Cohort Study was analyzed in this study. We used two-sample MR approaches (the inverse-variance weighted (IVW), the weighted median (WM), and the MR-Egger method) to estimate the effect of genetically determined hs-CRP on kidney function. We selected four and three hs-CRP associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as two instrumental variables (IV): IVCRP and IVAsian, based on SNPs previously identified in European and Asian populations. IVCRP and IVAsian explained 3.4% and 3.9% of the variation in hs-CRP, respectively.

Results: Using the IVCRP, genetically determined hs-CRP was not significantly associated with eGFR in the IVW and the WM methods (estimate per 1 unit increase in ln(hs-CRP), 0.000; 95% confidence interval [CI], −0.019 to 0.020 and −0.003; 95% CI, −0.019 to 0.014, respectively). For IVAsian, we found similar results using the IVW and the WM methods (estimate, 0.005; 95% CI, −0.020 to 0.010 and −0.004; 95% CI, −0.020 to 0.012, respectively). The MR-Egger method also showed no causal relationships between hs-CRP and eGFR (IVCRP: −0.008; 95% CI, −0.058 to 0.042; IVAsian: 0.001; 95% CI, −0.036 to 0.036).

Conclusion: Our two-sample MR analyses with different IVs did not support a causal effect of hs-CRP on eGFR.

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