Renal hypertension
Description
- Two directions, and they feed each other:
- Renal disease causes hypertension (renal parenchymal and renovascular)
- Hypertension causes renal disease (hypertensive nephrosclerosis)
- CKD is the commonest cause of secondary hypertension
- *In a hypertensive patient, hypertension precedes proteinuria and haematuria only in essential disease. Proteinuria or an active sediment first means renal disease came first*
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