Early stage chronic kidney disease: a paradigm for diffuse fibrosis and clinical progression

نویسندگان

  • Nicola C Edwards
  • William E Moody
  • Mengshi Yuan
  • Shonagh Flanagan
  • Charles J Ferro
  • John N Townend
  • Richard P Steeds
چکیده

Background Early stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an under recognised, highly prevalent cardiovascular (CV) risk factor. Despite a clustering of conventional atherosclerotic risk factors, there is a disproportionate rate of sudden cardiac death, heart failure and stroke rather than myocardial infarction. It is hypothesised that non-atherosclerotic processes, including left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and fibrosis account for most of the excess CV risk.

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دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014