The relationship between the age of onset of hypertension and chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study of the American population

Lanlan Qiu, Bo Wu · 2024

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Lanlan Qiu and Bo Wu study how the age when high blood pressure begins relates to kidney disease in two thousand twenty-four. High blood pressure harms many organs, and early onset is known to raise heart risk. Whether onset age matters for the kidneys had been little studied.

The pair used a large United States health survey covering two thousand seven to two thousand eighteen, with more than thirty thousand adults. People whose pressure rose before age thirty-five faced more than twice the kidney risk of those with no high pressure. Onset in the next two age bands also raised risk, though by less. The pattern suggests that long years of high pressure, not just its presence, drive kidney harm.

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CREATORLanlan Qiu, Bo Wu
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE25 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11669582

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