Why the study?
Does long-term antihypertensive treatment lead to end-stage renal disease in middle-aged white men with primary hypertension?
Population
686 white men with primary hypertension, aged 47-55 years at entry, living in Göteborg, Sweden.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
20 years
Authors
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Long-term antihypertensives were not associated with ESRD in this cohort; leaves open generalizability to women and non-white populations.
Does long-term antihypertensive treatment lead to end-stage renal disease in middle-aged white men with primary hypertension?
Long-term antihypertensive treatment in middle-aged men with primary nonmalignant hypertension is not associated with the development of end-stage renal disease.
Siewert-Delle et al. (1998) studied this question.
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