Coronary Artery Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease: Highlights from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference

The risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) increases as chronic kidney disease (CKD) advances, despite adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors.1 Conventional therapies have failed to improve these outcomes, especially in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).2 The abrupt decline in CAD risk after kidney transplant, despite years of exposure to traditional CAD risk factors, suggests a role for reversible factors associated with ESKD and dialysis. Here, we briefly highlight select topics from the recent Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference on CAD in CKD.
Source: Kidney International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Nephrology Digest Source Type: research