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Achieved systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular outcomes in advanced chronic kidney disease

Key takeaways

This study looked at people with advanced kidney disease and asked which achieved top blood pressure number went with the fewest heart attacks, strokes and heart deaths. Blood pressure control is one of the few levers that is known to matter at this stage, and the safest target in advanced kidney disease is still argued over. Because it tracks blood pressure people actually reached rather than assigning targets at random, it shows a link, not proof of cause. The full abstract was not posted, so the size of the group and the best performing range are not available here.

Who did this work

Ehab Al‐Sodany (Karolinska Institutet) · Karolina Szummer (Karolinska Institutet) · J. Osterman (Karolinska Institutet) · Caroline E Dietrich (Karolinska Institutet) · Juan Jesús Carrero (Karolinska Institutet) · Olof Heimbürger (Karolinska Institutet) · Peter Bárány (Karolinska Institutet) · Marie Evans (Karolinska Institutet)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-08-31
https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfag296