Long-term blood pressure monitoring and echocardiographic findings in patients with end-stage renal disease: reverse epidemiology explained?

Abstract

When long-term blood pressure values are considered, hypertension is associated with parameters of early cardiac damage such as increased LV mass index and not with parameters of advanced heart failure such as systolic dysfunction. This supports the hypothesis that the presence of advanced heart failure reciprocally influences blood pressure in a negative way, thereby explaining the 'reverse epidemiology' of blood pressure and mortality in ESRD.