VIDEO: Expert discusses BP management among elderly patients with kidney disease

BOSTON — Kidney disease is a serious and growing problem among the elderly and poses challenges for BP management, George L. Bakris, MD, said in this Cardiology Today video exclusive from the Cardiometabolic Health Congress.

“The importance of managing BP, especially in the elderly and its consequences on kidney disease is really important and we're going to highlight some new information and some new trial results that have come out looking at people with kidney disease and hypertension,” he said. “This will be a major new finding in kidney disease and hypertension management.”

Although the epidemiology is very clear, the question of whether the kidney contributes to CV risk is not certain, according to Bakris, professor of medicine and director of the American Society for Hypertension Comprehensive Hypertension Center, University of Chicago Medicine, and a Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member.

“This is still unclear but these are issues that we're going to be discussing and trying to tease out some of the epidemiology from the pathophysiology regarding this concept,” he said. “Weaving into this again is the whole issue of metabolomics, the contribution of diet and how that can actually affect inflammation.”