Blood pressure lowering in patients with chronic kidney disease: evidence from prospectively planned overview analyses

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/512504

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This study will provide highly reliable information about the best way of managing blood pressure in people with chronic kidney disease. It will use sophisticated methods to summarize information from 25 large clinical trials and 160,000 participants to determine whether lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of heart disease and further kidney damage.The study will also determine whether currently recommended blood pressure drugs are those which will provide the most benefit.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $257,271.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Preventive Medicine

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Blood Pressure | Blood pressure management | Cardiovascular disease | Chronic kidney disease | Evidence-based medicine | Prospective overviews (meta-analyses) | Translational research

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