Patients with chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure faced higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death than patients without high blood pressure, but that risk lessened with age, according to a new study.
Researchers analyzed the relationship of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in nearly 340,000 veterans with chronic kidney disease and found that SBP of above 140 mm Hg was associated with an elevated risk of all the outcomes that they examined over 5 years. DBP, on the other hand, was not related to cardiovascular outcomes.
