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Control of hypertension in adults with chronic kidney disease in the United StatesCarmen A Peralta
General Internal Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California, USA
Hypertension 45:1119-24. 2005..Future guidelines and antihypertensive therapies for patients with CKD should target isolated systolic hypertension...
Advances in the use of multimarker panels for renal risk stratificationCristin C Weekley
San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 21:301-8. 2012....
Cystatin C identifies chronic kidney disease patients at higher risk for complicationsCarmen A Peralta
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 22:147-55. 2011..Cystatin C may have a role in identifying persons with CKD who have the highest risk for complications...
Detection of chronic kidney disease with creatinine, cystatin C, and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio and association with progression to end-stage renal disease and mortalityCarmen A Peralta
Department of Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
JAMA 305:1545-52. 2011..A triple-marker approach for chronic kidney disease (CKD) evaluation has not been well studied...
Blood pressure components and end-stage renal disease in persons with chronic kidney disease: the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP)Carmen A Peralta
Department of Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Arch Intern Med 172:41-7. 2012..Treatment of hypertension is difficult in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and blood pressure goals remain controversial. The association between each blood pressure component and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) risk is less well known...
Association of antihypertensive therapy and diastolic hypotension in chronic kidney diseaseCarmen A Peralta
General Internal Medicine Section, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CA 94121, USA
Hypertension 50:474-80. 2007..Given recent evidence suggesting adverse effects of diastolic hypotension, these results suggest potential risks in patients with CKD from aggressive attempts to control systolic blood pressure...
Association of self-reported race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry with arterial elasticity: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)Christina L Wassel
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
J Am Soc Hypertens 5:463-72. 2011..Among Hispanics, ancestry is strongly associated with SAE. Future studies should consider genetic ancestry when studying hypertension in race/ethnic minorities, particularly among Hispanics...
Kidney function and systolic blood pressure new insights from cystatin C: data from the Heart and Soul StudyCarmen A Peralta
General Internal Medicine Section, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94124, USA
Am J Hypertens 19:939-46. 2006..Whether kidney function in the normal range is associated with systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), and pulse pressure is unclear...
Hypertension in children with chronic kidney disease: a call to actionCarmen A Peralta
Hypertension 52:610-2. 2008
The metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney diseaseCarmen A Peralta
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 15:361-5. 2006....
Differences in kidney function and incident hypertension: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosisBryan Kestenbaum
University of Washington, Division of Nephrology, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104 2499, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:501-8. 2008..Kidney disease and hypertension commonly coexist, yet the direction of their association is still debated...
Risks for end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular events, and death in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic white adults with chronic kidney diseaseCarmen A Peralta
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, 2000 Broadway Street, 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612-2304, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 17:2892-9. 2006..The higher prevalence of diabetes among Hispanic patients only partially explained the increased risk for ESRD. Further studies are required to elucidate the cause(s) of ethnic disparities in CKD-associated outcomes...
