Kidney disease worsens in a fourth of African-Americans despite therapy for hypertension
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 03:00
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 28 April 2008 in the Archives of Internal Medicine...
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