American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK) Disease and Mortality in Blacks With Hypertensive Kidney Disease : The African N-Terminal Prohormone Brain Natriuretic Peptide as a Predictor of Cardiovascular
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B.C. Astor, S. Yi, L. Hiremath, T. Corbin, V. Pogue, B. Wilkening, G. Peterson, J. Lewis, J.P. American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK) Disease and Mortality in Blacks With Hypertensive Kidney Disease : The African N-Terminal Prohormone Brain Natriuretic Peptide as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2008 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.724187 2008;117:1685-1692; originally published online March 24, 2008; Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/117/13/1685 World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the
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N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide as a predictor of cardiovascular disease and mortality in blacks with hypertensive kidney disease: the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK).
BACKGROUND Higher levels of N-terminal prohormone brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) in several disease states, but few data are available in patients with chronic kidney disease or in blacks. METHODS AND RESULTS The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension trial enrolled hypertensive blacks with a glomerular filtration rate of 20 ...
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