Elevated resting heart rate is an independent predictor of all-cause death and cardiovascular events in Japanese ambulatory hemodialysis patients.

Background: Elevated heart rate (HR) is an independent risk factor for all-cause death or cardiovascular events in non-hemodialysis subjects; however, the clinical significance of elevated HR in hemodialysis patients is not well studied.

Methods: We prospectively evaluated the relationship between HR and adverse outcome in a total of 229 ambulatory hemodialysis patients (57 % men; mean age 62.2 years) recruited from two dialysis clinics in 2009.

Plasma aldosterone in hypertensive patients on chronic hemodialysis: distribution, determinants and impact on survival.

A high plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) is known to be associated with poor outcome in patients with cardiac disease. However, the prognostic value of PAC in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients is unknown. In 1996 we examined 128 hypertensive patients treated with antihypertensive drugs, excluding angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, who were undergoing chronic HD (ages 61.

Outcome study of renal biopsy patients in Okinawa, Japan.

Here we report a community-based epidemiologic study of patients who received renal biopsy in Okinawa, Japan between 1967 and 1994. The total number of cases was 2832 (1395 men and 1437 women), and the mean (SD) age at biopsy was 30.0 (10.