Hypertension News

While the implementation of a nurse-led program to manage chronic kidney disease in a primary care setting did not slow disease progression, it did improve quality of care and help patients achieve target blood pressures, according to a published study.

For patients with chronic kidney disease, treatment of metabolic acidosis with oral alkali supplementation or a reduction in dietary acid intake may slow the rate of kidney function decline, thus reducing the risk for ESKD, according to systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials.

Compared with living kidney donors aged 50 years or older without hypertension, those with hypertension had an elevated risk for ESKD, according to a recently published study.

BOSTON — Female kidney transplant recipients who conceived between the ages of 18 and 25 years had higher rates of rejection and graft loss, as well as higher serum creatinine post-pregnancy, than women who were older at the age of conception, according to a speaker at the American Transplant Congress.

BOSTON — Kidney transplant recipients have a substantially greater risk of cardiovascular mortality than the general population, and excess risk is higher for women than men, according to a speaker at the American Transplant Congress.

BOSTON — Combining spironolactone therapy with patiromer may allow patients with CKD and resistant hypertension to safely manage their blood pressure without increasing their risk for developing hyperkalemia, according to phase 2 results from the AMBER trial, presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

SAN FRANCISCO — In patients with atrial fibrillation and hypertension, performing renal artery denervation in addition to catheter ablation increased the odds of 12-month freedom from AF compared with catheter ablation alone, according to the results of the ERADICATE-AF study.

Cardiometabolic Health Congress West, taking place from Friday to Sunday in Phoenix, will update attendees on the latest developments in cardiometabolic disorders, diabetes, HF, kidney disease and more, and provide perspectives on how these conditions interact with each other.

Constructing a national registry to improve long-term monitoring of living kidney donors — in a way that is similar to the continued care provided to recipients — could be valuable in preventing the likelihood of donors experiencing an adverse event, according to a recently published study.

While hypertension diagnoses differed for prospective kidney donors based on modality and which guidelines were used, lower blood pressure cutoffs reduced the overall prevalence of missing the condition, according to a recently published study.