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SUBMITTER: Hardy ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528649 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hardy Shakia T ST Zeng Donglin D Kshirsagar Abhijit V AV Viera Anthony J AJ Avery Christy L CL Heiss Gerardo G
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20180523 6
While much of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) literature focuses on the role of blood pressure reduction in delaying CKD progression, little is known about the benefits of modest population-wide decrements in blood pressure on incident CKD. The authors used multivariable linear regression to characterize the impact on incident CKD of two approaches for blood pressure management: (1) a 1-mm Hg reduction in systolic BP across the entire study population; and (2) a 10% reduction in participants wi ...[more]