title: [Subclinical and established kidney disease in recently diagnosed hypertensive patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate renal disease in recently diagnosed hypertensive patients, and to identify factors related to renal disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study, with 425 hypertensive patients recently diagnosed in primary health care; renal disease was estimated with serum creatinine, albumin/creatinine index and glomerular filtration rate (GFR). We analyzed cardiovascular risk factors (CRF), subclinical organ injury and cardiovascular disease following the criteria of the 2007 European Guide of Hypertension.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Average age: 58,96 +/- 12,73 years old, 63,3% male. We found dyslipemia in 80%, abdominal obesity in 49% and metabolic syndrome in 36% patients. These patients showed increased serum creatinine 3,3%, a reduction in GFR 9,6%, hidden renal disease 6,4%, microalbuminuria 7,5% and nephropathy 2,4%. Hypertensive patients with renal disease (17,88%) were older, with higher systolic pressure, higher incidence of metabolic syndrome, abnormal carotid intima-media thickness and ankle-arm index, and presence of cardiovascular disease. Variables associated with renal disease were metabolic syndrome (odds ratio = 11,12) and ankle-arm index (odds ratio = 17,55). Variables related to creatinina were sex, ankle-arm index and metabolic syndrome; variables related to GFR were sex, age, ankle-arm index, metabolic syndrome and body mass index (BMI); variables related with albumin/creatinine index included diabetes mellitus.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Renal disease is detected in about 2 out of 10 hypertensive patients, when, besides serum creatinina, we analyze albumin/creatinine index and GFR. Metabolic syndrome and ankle-arm index are the main variables associated with renal disease.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación, Centro de Salud La Alamedilla, Salamanca, España. magomez@usal.es
authors.forename: Manuel Angel
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gómez-Marcos
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martínez-Salgado
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grandes
authors.forename: José Ignacio
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Recio-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Yolanda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Castaño Sánchez
authors.forename: Emiliano
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Sánchez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: García-Ortiz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence