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Is serum creatinine level a sensitive indicator of hypertensive renal involvement and target organ damage in elderly patients compared to middle-aged patients?
Is serum creatinine level a sensitive indicator of hypertensive renal involvement and target organ damage in elderly patients compared to middle-aged patients?
Serum creatinine may underestimate hypertensive renal involvement in elderly patients, whereas serum uric acid is a sensitive indicator of target organ damage across age groups.
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Serum creatinine may underestimate target organ damage in elderly hypertensives; cross-sectional data leave open uric acid as a broader LVM marker.
Shigematsu et al. (1999) studied this question.
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