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Observational studyJournal of human hypertension2024

The association of sex differences in ambulatory blood pressure with cardiovascular events and mortality in dialysis patients.

Fotini Iatridi, Marieta P Theodorakopoulou, Areti Georgiou, Artemios G Karagiannidis, Nasra Haddad, Nikolaos Devrikis, Christopher C Mayer, Vasileios Kamperidis, Vasileios Anastasiou, Antonios Karpetas and 1 more

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Observational study in Journal of human hypertension, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Sex Differences in Ambulatory Central Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Hemodialysis Patients.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2025
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Fotini IatridiFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. fotini.iatridi@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8863-227X
Marieta P TheodorakopoulouFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6216-9635
Areti GeorgiouFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Artemios G KaragiannidisFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7054-1422
Nasra HaddadFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikolaos DevrikisFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Christopher C MayerAIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Center for Health & Bioresources, Medical Signal Analysis, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5612-5481
Vasileios KamperidisFirst Department of Cardiology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vasileios AnastasiouFirst Department of Cardiology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Antonios KarpetasTherapeutiki Hemodialysis Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Pantelis SarafidisFirst Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9174-4018

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Male patients with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) have worse ambulatory blood pressure (BP) control than females; this is associated with higher mortality. Male hemodialysis patients have higher ambulatory BP levels than females. This analysis aimed to investigate the association of sex differences in ambulatory BP with cardiovascular events and mortality in hemodialysis individuals. 129 male and 91 female hemodialysis patients with valid 48-h BP monitoring were followed for 53.4 ± 31.1 months. The primary endpoint was cardiovascular mortality; the secondary endpoint was a composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, resuscitation after cardiac arrest, heart failure-hospitalization, coronary or peripheral revascularization. Cumulative freedom from the primary endpoint was lower for women (logrank-p = 0.032), while cumulative-freedom from the secondary endpoint did not differ significantly between-groups (logrank-p = 0.644). The crude risk for cardiovascular mortality was significantly higher in women (HR = 1.613, 95% CI [1.037, 2.509]). The crude risk for the combined endpoint was not different between the two groups (HR = 0.918, 95% CI [0.638, 1.320]). After adjusting for major risk factors (age, diabetes, dialysis vintage, coronary disease and hemoglobin) no significant differences in the risk for both the primary and the secondary endpoint were observed between women and men (primary: HR = 1.295 (95% CI [0.808, 2.078]), secondary: HR = 0.763 (95% CI [0.521, 1.118])). After additional adjustment for 44-h systolic BP the above relationships did not alter (primary: HR = 1.329 (95% CI [0.826, 2.137]), secondary: HR = 0.808 (95% CI [0.551, 1.184])). In conclusion, female hemodialysis patients have higher crude but similar adjusted cardiovascular mortality rates compared to male counterparts. In contrast to pre-dialysis CKD, the neutral relationship between gender and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in hemodialysis is not further affected by ambulatory BP.

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Blood PressureCardiovascular DiseasesRenal DialysisRenal Insufficiency, ChronicSex FactorsAgedBlood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryFemaleGreeceHeart Disease Risk FactorsHumansMaleMiddle Aged

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