One size doesn't fit all for blood pressure management in dialysis patients, researchers found in a large cohort study.
Age and diabetes status impacted the link with mortality -- higher at low blood pressures in some groups but high pressures in others, Philip G. Zager, MD, of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and Dialysis Clinic, both in Albuquerque, N.M., and colleagues reported.
Blood pressure targets should take these factors into account, they recommended online in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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