1. Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensive Patients with Renal Dysfunction
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Giacomo Deferrari, Rossella Cannavò, Luca Deferrari, Michela Re, Ursula Weiss, and Maura Ravera
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education.field_of_study ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Population ,Disease ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,Dialysis patients ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Pharmacotherapy ,Internal medicine ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Albuminuria ,Cardiology ,cardiovascular diseases ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,education ,business ,Kidney disease - Abstract
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with elevated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is highly prevalent in CKD and mortality due to CVD is 5- to 200-fold higher in dialysis patients than in the general population.
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- 2009
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