Association of Ambulatory Blood Pressure with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients: Effects of Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation.
Christopher Clemens MayerJulia MatschkalPantelis A SarafidisStefan HagmairGeorg LorenzSusanne AngermannMatthias C BraunischMarcus BaumannUwe HeemannSiegfried WassertheurerChristoph SchmadererPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2018)
This study provides evidence for the U-shaped association between peripheral ambulatory SBP or PP and mortality in patients on hemodialysis. Furthermore, it suggests that underlying cardiac disease can explain the opposite direction of associations.
Keyphrases
- blood pressure
- end stage renal disease
- heart failure
- atrial fibrillation
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- cardiovascular events
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- left ventricular
- hypertensive patients
- risk factors
- heart rate
- cardiovascular disease
- type diabetes
- prognostic factors
- left atrial
- catheter ablation
- left atrial appendage
- insulin resistance
- acute heart failure