Sleep-Time Ambulatory BP Is an Independent Prognostic Marker of CKD

What is it about?

This prospective study documents that blood pressure during sleep, but not during awakening of measurements obtained at the clinic, is a significant prognostic marker for the risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD). It also documents for the first time that decreasing sleep-time blood pressure actually reduces the risk for CKD.

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Why is it important?

The results provide, first, a method to quantify the individualized risk for CKD based on the determination of sleep-time blood pressure by ambulatory monitoring, the already recommended approach for proper diagnosis of hypertension; and second, a way to reduce such risk by specifically targeting sleep-time blood pressure by proper timed therapeutic intervention.

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