Why the study?
What are the strongest correlates of systolic hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease?
Population
232 veterans with chronic kidney disease
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Supports proteinuria assessment in CKD hypertension evaluation; leaves open causal links and intervention effects.
What are the strongest correlates of systolic hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease?
Proteinuria is the strongest correlate of systolic blood pressure in older men with CKD, with out-of-clinic BP recordings correlating better with target organ damage than clinic recordings.
Agarwal et al. (2005) studied this question.
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