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. 2020 Supplement-Jan;93(1):103-107.
doi: 10.5414/CNP92S118.

Hypertension and kidney disease progression

Diego Rigo, Marcelo Orias

Hypertension and kidney disease progression

Diego Rigo et al. Clin Nephrol. 2020 Supplement-Jan.

Abstract

Hypertension is a common finding in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and it is associated with kidney disease progression. Hypertensive nephropathy is a diagnosis, mostly based on clinical suspicion and defines many cases of CKD of unknown etiology. The risk of progression of hypertension-attributed nephropathy seems to have a genetic background as has been demonstrated in African-American patients with APOL1 gene risk variants.

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