Blood pressure test reveals heart disease risk in patients with early stages of CKD
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
Pulse pressure, an inexpensive and noninvasive measurement derived from blood pressure readings, can effectively indicate which patients with kidney disease are at increased risk of developing potentially fatal heart complications, according to a study appearing in the February 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN)...
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