Luis Vigil

TL;DR: Analysis of the evolution of GFR, assessed as creatinine clearance, during long-term follow-up of hypertensive patients and evaluation of the impact of the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on cardiovascular prognosis found that in essential hypertension patients with normal renal function at baseline, theDevelopment of CKD during the follow- up is strongly and independently related with poor cardiovascular prog outlook.

TL;DR: Complexity of the glycemic profile of critically ill patients varies significantly between survivors and nonsurvivors and loss of complexity in glycemia time series, evaluated by detrended fluctuation analysis, is associated with higher mortality.

TL;DR: There is a progressive loss of complexity in the glycemic profile from health, through the metabolic syndrome to type 2 diabetes mellitus, and precedes hyperglycemia and correlates with other markers of disease progression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether cystatin C concentration is associated with the metabolic syndrome and with other cardiovascular risk factors in a hypertensive population, and they prospectively included 611 essential hypertensive patients during a 12-month period.

TL;DR: Estimating the prevalence of diminished creatinine clearance in hypertensive patients with or without MS and investigating the factors accompanying this abnormality and factors related to the finding of a diminished CC in MS and non-MS patients were similar.