PMID: 15219090Jun 29, 2004Paper

Hypertension in hemodialysis patients in Andalucia

Nefrología : publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española Nefrologia
M J García CortésGrupo de tabajo sobre Calidad de la Hemodiálisis en Andalucía

Abstract

Hypertension is a common and difficult clinic problem in patients undergoing cronical hemodialysis and exerts a deleterious effect on mordibidy and mortality in end stage renal disease. Identification of potentially reversible factors associated with hypertension would be rational fist step in designing and effective therapeutic strategy. Our study aimed to document the prevalence of hypertension in hemodialysis patients in Andalucia and identify and characterise the demographic, epidemiological, clinical factors and dialysis regimens associated with hypertension. The study population included 2,789 patients enrolled in 46 hemodialysis centers in Andalucia on 2002. Hypertension was defined as requiring the use of antihypertensive drugs. Patients wre classified as hypertensive and no hypertensive. Demographic, comorbidity, anaemia, inflammatory and nutritional data were collected in both groups. Hypertensive patients were divided into 4 groups of severity according to the number of antihypertensive drugs received. Comparisons between groups were done. Our results show a hypertension prevalence of 53.8% in comparing clinical data of no hypertensive and hypertensive patients, we observed that patients with hypertension were signif...Continue Reading

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