Yuanjie Pang, Yingying Sang, Shoshana H Ballew, Morgan E Grams, Gerardo Heiss, Josef Coresh, Kunihiro Matsushita
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Carotid intima-media thickness has been reported to predict kidney function decline. However, whether carotid intima-media thickness is associated with a hard kidney end point, ESRD, has not been investigated. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We studied 13,197 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities participants at visit 1 (1987-1989) without history of cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart failure, at baseline and assessed whether carotid intima-media thickness measured by B-mode ultrasound is associated with ESRD risk using Cox proportional hazards models...
July 7, 2016: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN