Kidney disease worsens in a fourth of African-Americans despite therapy for hypertension
Monday, May 5, 2008 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published April 28, 2008, in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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