The Kidney in Hypertension.

Abstract

Hypertension is the second most common cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is a potentiator of kidney failure when accompanying disease. CKD is a common cause of resistant hypertension. Nephropathy progression has dramatically slowed over the past 3 decades from an average of 8 to between 2-3 mL/min per year regardless of diabetes status. The incidence of very high albuminuria as well as progression from high albuminuria very high albuminuria has substantially decreased over the past 3 decades. This improvement relates to better blood pressure control using agents that slow nephropathy as well as better glycemic and cholesterol control.