Introduction Studies on the blood pressure lowering effect of renal denervation (RDN) in
resistant hypertensive patients have produced conflicting results. Change in medication
usage during the studies may be responsible for this inconsistency. To eliminate the effect of
medication usage on blood pressure we focused on unmedicated hypertensive patients who
underwent RDN. Methods and results Our study reports on a cohort of patients, who were
not on blood pressure lowering drugs at baseline and during follow-up, from eight tertiary …

Methods: In this cross sectional retrospective study we analyzed 3864 subjects devided into
four groups of patiens: first, the HT group-715 only hypertensive adult patients with no
diabetes or kidney disease from two general practices; second, the CKD group-1315 chronic
kidney diasease patients (CKD) from a secondary care nephrology unit, third, the DM group-
538 diabetes mellitus patients admitted in a secondary care diabetes unit and forth group
DM+ CKD group-1296 patients with both diabetes and kidney disease from the diabetes …