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Blood Pressure and Mortality in Long-Term Hemodialysis—Time to Move Forward

Contrary to the direct, graded, and causal relationship of hypertension with cardiovascular outcomes in the general population, among dialysis patients, blood pressure (BP) recorded either predialysis or postdialysis displays a U-shaped curve with mortality. This paradoxical phenomenon of lower BP o...

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Published in:Am J Hypertens
Main Authors: Georgianos, Panagiotis I., Agarwal, Rajiv
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861571/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27661097
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpw114
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