Intensive blood-pressure control in hypertensive chronic kidney disease

Authors :: Appel, Lawrence J.
Wright, Jackson T. Jr.
Greene, Tom
Agodoa, Lawrence Y.
Astor, Brad C.
Bakris, George L.
Cleveland, William H.
Charleston, Jeanne
Contreras, Gabriel
Faulkner, Marquetta L.
Gabbai, Francis B.
Gassman, Jennifer J.
Hebert, Lee A.
Jamerson, Kenneth A.
Kopple Joel D.
Kusek, John W.
Lash, James P.
Lea, Janice P.
Lewis, Julia B.
Lipkowitz, Michael S.
Massry, Shaul G.
Miller, Edgar R.
Norris, Keith
Phillips, Robert A.
Pogue, Velvie A.
Randall, Otelio S.
Rostand, Stephen G.
Smogorzewski, Miroslaw J.
Toto, Robert D.
Xuelei Wang
Source :: The New England Journal of Medicine. Sept 2, 2010, Vol. 363 Issue 10, p918, 12 p.
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: The study aims to evaluate the association between intensive blood pressure control and a reduction in progression of African-American patients with hypertensive chronic kidney disease. The results indicate that such control had no effect on progression of the disease; however, there were differential effects.

Subjects :: African Americans -- Health aspects
Blood pressure -- Health aspects
Kidney diseases -- Physiological aspects
Kidney diseases -- Control

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