Summary Types hypertension Terminology

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Surprises from the 1994 Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study

Low-protein disappoints; attention drawn to proteinuria and blood pressure The MDRD study was a landmark trial set up to prove the importanc...

The perils of Salt

Dialysis finally forced recognition of its importance in kidney disease The Amazonian Yanomami Indians famously manage on only 50mg (1 mmol...

High blood pressure becomes treatable

The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...

Marathon nephritis and postural proteinuria

When urinary abnormalities don’t indicate renal disease From Tom Brown at Oxford  (1861) illust Sydney P Hall (1903 edition) Richard Bright’...