Blood pressure control in chronic kidney disease: A cross-sectional analysis from the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study.

We assessed the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in patients with moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) under nephrological care in Germany. In the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study, 5217 patients under nephrology specialist care were enrolled from 2010 to 2012 i...

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Main Authors: Markus P Schneider, Karl F Hilgers, Matthias Schmid, Silvia Hübner, Jennifer Nadal, David Seitz, Martin Busch, Hermann Haller, Anna Köttgen, Florian Kronenberg, Seema Baid-Agrawal, Georg Schlieper, Ulla Schultheiss, Thomas Sitter, Claudia Sommerer, Stephanie Titze, Heike Meiselbach, Christoph Wanner, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, GCKD Study Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6101389?pdf=render