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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn642
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© The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org


What's new in hypertension 2008?

Johannes F. E. Mann

Munich General Hospitals, Ludwig Maximilians University Munchen and KfH Kidney Centre, Munich, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Johannes F. E. Mann, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Schwabing General Hospital, LMU and KfH Kidney Center, Munchen, Germany. Tel: +49-89-3068-2386; Fax: +49-89-3068-3917; E-mail: johannes.mann@kms.mhn.de

Keywords: angiotensin; cardiovascular; pre-eclampsia; review; stroke

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   Introduction
 
This editorial comment intends to inform readers of NDT about new information in the field of hypertension from mid-October 2007 to September 2008 that has not been published in nephrological journals. PubMed lists 2514 citations in the last 12 months with ‘hypertension’ as major topic including 353 reviews.



   Human studies
 
Antihypertensive drugs in people over 80 years of age
It is unclear whether we should treat hypertensive people above the age of 80 years with antihypertensive drugs. This hypertensive subgroup on the one hand is liable to adverse events of drug treatment and may die of many diseases unrelated to hypertension, but on the other hand the absolute cardiovascular risk increases dramatically with higher blood pressure. The HYVET study [1] randomized people above the age of 80 and with sustained systolic blood pressure >160 mmHg to placebo or to indapamid, 1.5 mg/day, to which perindopril, 2–4 mg/day, could be added if the target blood pressure of 150/80 was not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Combining ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers does not help
Should we screen asymptomatic people for carotid artery stenosis?
Obesity is not a lack of discipline
Subtle kidney damage first, hypertension later?
How to use ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers with renal artery stenosis?


   Experimental studies
 
T-cells mediate angiotensin-induced hypertension and vascular damage
H-RAS oncogene associated with angiotensin-dependent hypertension
Unravelling pre-eclampsia
Activation of the renin–angiotensin system in diabetes is driven by hyperglycaemia
Hypertension is driving cellular senescence

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