Skip Navigation


NDT Advance Access originally published online on October 13, 2006
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(1):9-11; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl580
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
22/1/9    most recent
gfl580v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (2)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Baigent, C.
Right arrow Articles by Landray, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Baigent, C.
Right arrow Articles by Landray, M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Which cardiovascular risk factors matter in chronic kidney disease?

Colin Baigent and Martin Landray

Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Oxford, UK

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Prof Colin Baigent, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK. Email: colin.baigent@ctsu.ox.ac.uk

Keywords: blood pressure; cholesterol; epidemiology; haematocrit; randomized trials; risk factors

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.



   Why measure risk factors for vascular disease?
 
Identifying cardiovascular risk factors among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is potentially useful for two main reasons. First, such risk factors may be used to predict the future risk of an event, which may help physicians to plan treatment. Second, they may be targets for intervention to prevent such events. It is now clear that a large number of risk factors independently predict the risk of cardiovascular outcomes among dialysis patients [1] and among patients with lesser degrees of renal impairment [2]. But, although a risk score based on independent risk factors can be assembled without particular regard to whether they are causal, treatments which modify a particular risk factor will only be effective for the prevention of vascular disease if that risk factor is a cause of such disease.



   Limitations of dialysis studies for identifying causes of vascular disease
 
The starting point for identifying risk factors that might prove to be . . . [Full Text of this Article]



   Alternative strategies for identifying causes of vascular disease in CKD
 


   Average levels of risk factors may to be too high for CKD patients
 


   Assessing risk factors which are specific to CKD
 


   Summary
 

Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?