title: The assessment of arterial stiffness in endemic (Balkan) nephropathy patients undergoing haemodialysis.
abstract: Cardiovascular (CV) complications are the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Arterial stiffness (AS) has been recognized as a strong and independent predictor for CV events in CKD. Our aim was to assess indices of AS in a group of Endemic (Balkan) Nephropathy (EN) patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD). Hypertenison was not considered an importnat feauture in earlier stages of the disease, and therefore we presumed that those patients would have lower AS. Interestingly, we found AS to be even higher in this group of EN patients. This result should be confirmed in a larger cohort of EN patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Department of Nephrology, Arterial Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation UHC Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Vedran
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Premužić
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Teskera
authors.forename: Ninoslav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leko
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vuković-Lela
authors.forename: Vanja
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ivković
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laganović
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jelaković
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001449:Balkan Nephropathy / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D059289:Vascular Stiffness