Relation between Kidney Length and Cardiovascular and Renal Risk in High-Risk Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Kidney length is often measured during routine abdominal ultrasonography and may be of use to identify patients at high vascular and renal risk. We aimed to explore patient characteristics related to kidney length, from which reference values were derived, and evaluate the relationship between kidney length and the risk of cardiovascular events and ESRD in high-risk patients.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

The study population consisted of 10,251 patients with clinical manifest arterial disease or vascular risk factors included in the Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease (SMART) Study cohort between 1996 and 2014. Linear regression was used to explore patient characteristics of kidney length. The relationship between kidney lengt

SUBMITTER: van der Sande NGC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5460708 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature