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Blood Pressure Components and the Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease and Death in Chronic Kidney Disease

Author(s) -

Rajiv Agarwal

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.06201208

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , kidney disease , blood pressure , cardiology , end stage renal disease , pulse pressure , nephrology , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , cohort , disease , confidence interval

Mean arterial pressure has been used in clinical trials in nephrology to randomly assign and treat patients, yet the pulsatile component of BP is recognized to influence outcomes in older people. I examined the unique contributions of systolic (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) on the risk for ESRD and death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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