关键词: 调脂药物, 他汀类药物, 高血压肾病, 孟德尔随机化, 全基因组关联研究

Abstract: Objective To assess the potential causal relationship between lipid phenotypes mediated by lipid-lowering drug targets（HMGCR,PCSK9 and NPC1L1）and the risk of hypertensive nephropathy．Methods Mendelian randomization（MR）analysis was conducted using summary data from publicly available European ancestry genome-wide association studies（GWAS）．Genetic variants associated with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol（LDL-C）were used as instrumental variables based on selected lipid-lowering drug target genes screening tools．Inverse variance weighting was selected as the main MR analysis method,with sensitivity analyses conducted to ensure the robustness of the results．Results Genetically predicted LDL-C levels were associated with a higher risk of hypertensive nephropathy（OR=1.19,95% CI：1.03~1.38,P=0.021）．Higher LDL-C levels mediated by HMGCR were positively causally related to increased risk of hypertensive nephropathy（OR=4.08,95% CI：2.86~5.81;P<0.001）．However,LDL-C levels mediated by PCSK9 and NPC1L1 showed no significant association with the risk of hypertensive nephropathy．Cochran’s Q test,MR-PRESSO,and MR-Egger intercept tests showed no heterogeneity or horizontal pleiotropy among instrumental variables．Conclusions The findings of this study support the causal relationship between LDL-C mediated by HMGCR and increased risk of hypertensive nephropathy,suggesting potential benefits of statin therapy for hypertensive nephropathy．

Key words: lipid-lowering drugs, statins, hypertensive nephropathy, Mendelian randomization, genome-wide association study