Associations of Long-Term Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability With Subclinical Kidney Damage and Albuminuria in Adulthood: a 30-Year Prospective Cohort Study
Wang Y, Zhao P, Chu C, Du MF, Zhang XY, Zou T, Hu GL, Zhou HW, Jia H, Liao YY, Chen C, Ma Q, Wang D, Yan Y, Sun Y, Wang KK, Niu ZJ, Zhang X, Man ZY, Wu YX, Wang L, Li HX, Zhang J, Li CH, Gao WH, Gao K, Lu WH, Desir GV, Delles C, Chen FY, Mu JJ. Associations of Long-Term Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability With Subclinical Kidney Damage and Albuminuria in Adulthood: a 30-Year Prospective Cohort Study. Hypertension 2022, 79: 1247-1256. PMID: 35360932, PMCID: PMC9093226, DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.18658.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLong-term blood pressure variabilitySubclinical kidney damageAverage real variabilityBlood pressure variabilityLong-term visitCreatinine ratioUrinary albuminMean BPKidney damageCardiovascular diseasePressure variabilityHigh riskCumulative exposureHanzhong Adolescent Hypertension StudyVisit blood pressure variabilityProspective cohort studyGlomerular filtration rateRisk of albuminuriaClinical characteristicsCohort studyOngoing cohortKidney diseaseHypertension StudyFiltration rateAlbuminuriaAssociation of renalase with clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19
Safdar B, Wang M, Guo X, Cha C, Chun HJ, Deng Y, Dziura J, El-Khoury JM, Gorelick F, Ko AI, Lee AI, Safirstein R, Simonov M, Zhou B, Desir GV. Association of renalase with clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0264178. PMID: 35259186, PMCID: PMC8903289, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264178.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19 patientsRenalase levelsIntensive care unit admissionHospitalized COVID-19 patientsMean age 64 yearsCOVID-19Cox proportional hazards modelCare unit admissionPrimary composite outcomeRetrospective cohort studyUse of vasopressorsSevere COVID-19IL-6 levelsAge 64 yearsRisk of deathCOVID-19 subjectsInitial disease severityProportional hazards modelCOVID-19 diseasePlasma renalaseUnit admissionICU admissionCohort studyComposite outcomeCytokine levels