The majority of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are hypertensive. Hypertension in
the hemodialysis patient population is multifactorial. Further, hypertension is associated with …

Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy after conversion to nocturnal hemodialysis.
Background Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for mortality in …

Blood pressure and long-term mortality in United States hemodialysis patients: USRDS
Waves 3 and 4 Study. Background The long-term prognostic associations of pre-and post …

Background: In the last few years, renewed interest in daily short hemodialysis (DHD; six 2-
hour sessions per week) has become apparent as a consequence of the better clinical …

Background Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), which strongly predicts cardiac mortality, is
seen in more than 60% of end-stage renal disease patients. The aim of this study was to …

The interest in daily hemodialysis in the form of short daily hemodialysis and nocturnal
hemodialysis has continued to increase over the past few years. A significant number of …

Preliminary data and extrapolations from essential hypertension have justified a growing
excitement about the use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in renal disease …

Objective: To analyze the relationship between the peroxisome proliferator-activated
receptor-γ (PPARγ2) Pro12Ala variant and type-2 diabetes mellitus and its correlation with …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) has been growing steadily in popularity, as
equipment becomes more portable, accurate and affordable, software packages more …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring has been steadily growing in popularity as
equipment becomes more accurate, affordable, and patient-friendly. In addition, software …