Key result
Meta-analysis outlines rationale to evaluate blood pressure levels and cardiovascular mortality without reporting results.
Why the study?
There may be a stronger association between elevated blood pressure levels and cardiovascular disease deaths than with deaths from other causes in patients with kidney failure on maintenance peritoneal dialysis.
Does elevated blood pressure increase cardiovascular disease mortality in patients with kidney failure on maintenance peritoneal dialysis?
Meta-Analysis
Does elevated blood pressure increase cardiovascular disease mortality in patients with kidney failure on maintenance peritoneal dialysis?
A sub-analysis of a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the association between elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular disease mortality in patients on maintenance peritoneal dialysis.
Elevated pulse pressure was associated with CV mortality in peritoneal dialysis; extends prior observational meta-analyses but leaves optimal targets open.
Bezerra et al1 recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis, which examined the association between blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance peritoneal dialysis. This motivated us to conduct a subanalysis of our recently published systematic review and meta-analysis2 focusing on CVD because there may be a stronger association between elevated BP levels and CVD deaths than with deaths from other causes.
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Lee et al. (2026) conducted a meta-analysis in Kidney failure on maintenance peritoneal dialysis. Elevated blood pressure was evaluated on Cardiovascular disease mortality. The abstract outlines the rationale for a subanalysis examining the association between blood pressure levels and cardiovascular mortality, but reports no quantitative findings.
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