Arnold B. Alper

TL;DR: Elevated childhood serum uric acid levels are associated with increased blood pressure beginning in childhood and higher blood pressure levels that persist into adulthood, in males and females, whites and blacks, suggesting that early elevations in serum urIC acid levels may play a key role in the development of human hypertension.

TL;DR: Higher urinary sodium excretion was associated with increased risk of CVD among patients with CKD, and restricted cubic spline analyses provided no evidence of a nonlinear association and indicated a significant linear association.

TL;DR: In patients with CKD, ambulatory BP characterizes the relationship between BP and target organ damage better than BP measured in the clinic alone.

TL;DR: There was an inverse relationship between LDL-C and total cholesterol levels and kidney disease outcomes in patients with low levels of proteinuria and treatment with statins was differential across lipid categories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and mortality in advanced chronic kidney disease and after initiation of hemodialysis was evaluated in chronic renal insufficiency patients.