Journal article
Evidence for reverse causality in the association between blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic kidney disease
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Among those with moderate-to-advanced chronic kidney disease, the relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular disease appears ‘U’-shaped, but is loglinear in apparently healthy adults. The Study of Heart and Renal Protection randomized 9270 patients with chronic kidney disease to simvastatin/ezetimbe versus matching placebo, and measured blood pressure at each follow-up visit. Cox regression was used to assess the association between blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular diseas...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.08386
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Australian National Health Medical Research Council
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Merck & Co.
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Medical Research Council
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British Heart Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Heart Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Hypertension Journal website
- Volume:
- 2017
- Issue:
- 69
- Pages:
- 314-322
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1524-4563
- ISSN:
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0194-911X
- Source identifiers:
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661559
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- pubs:661559
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- 2016-11-24
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- Herrington et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Authors. Hypertension is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 License.
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