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An interesting editorial comment on the pro's and con's of maximal suppression of the RAAS system in patients with chronic kidney diseases concludes that the majority of patients probably attain their optimal therapeutic response at standard doses of either ACE inhibitors or ARBs or combinations of these drugs, but that a small residual group has further therapeutic benefit of high doses. Since these patients are not a priori identifiable, a