Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19347366›Full record

ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2009

Role of aldosterone in the progression of chronic kidney disease and potential use of aldosterone blockade in children.

Elaine Ku, Vito M Campese

Abstract readReview
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Guideline
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Elaine KuDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Vito M Campese

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much focus has been placed on the role of the renin-angiotensin system as a mediator of the progression of chronic kidney disease. Novel therapeutic strategies to inhibit the negative impact of renin-angiotensin activation, including dual therapy with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and an angiotensin-receptor blocker, have been suggested to achieve more complete disruption of the renin-angiotensin system. The role played by aldosterone, a target of angiotensin II, in the progression of chronic kidney disease has become a subject of significant interest over the past decade. Experimental studies in animals have shown that persistently elevated aldosterone levels lead to pathohistological changes in the kidney, along with renal and cardiac fibrosis. Incomplete suppression of aldosterone may, therefore, contribute to the deleterious effects of the renin-angiotensin system in the setting of chronic kidney disease. Clinical trials in adults have shown a potential role for mineralocorticoid receptor blockers to delay further the development of end-stage renal disease by completing renin-angiotensin blockade. In adults, mineralocorticoid receptor blockade produces a significant anti-proteinuric effect and has minimal risk of causing hyperkalemia if the condition of the patients is closely monitored. Further studies will need to be conducted to determine whether mineralocorticoid receptor blockers are equally effective and safe for the treatment of chronic kidney disease in children.

Indexed as

Mineralocorticoid Receptor AntagonistsAldosteroneAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin II Type 1 Receptor BlockersAnimalsChildDisease ProgressionDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansKidney Failure, ChronicRenin-Angiotensin SystemSpironolactoneAldosteroneAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin II Type 1 Receptor BlockersMineralocorticoid Receptor AntagonistsSpironolactone

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.