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Blood pressure and age-related GFR decline in the general population

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is one of the most important causes of end-stage renal disease, but it is unclear whether elevated blood pressure (BP) also accelerates the gradual decline in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) seen in the general population with increasing age. The reason may be that most...

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Autores principales: Eriksen, Bjørn O., Stefansson, Vidar T. N., Jenssen, Trond G., Mathisen, Ulla D., Schei, Jørgen, Solbu, Marit D., Wilsgaard, Tom, Melsom, Toralf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28245797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0496-7