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Nature Reviews Nephrology 4, 348–349 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ncpneph0836

Benefit from blood-pressure-lowering drugs is linked to urinary albumin level

Boersma C et al. (2008) Baseline albuminuria predicts the efficacy of blood pressure-lowering drugs in preventing cardiovascular events. Br J Clin Pharmacol 65: 723–732 In an observational analysis of Dutch adults who participated in the community-based PREVEND trial, Boersma et al. have shown that hypertensive people with elevated urinary albumin levels receive a greater benefit from blood-pressure-lowering drugs, especially those that interfere with the renin–angiotensin system, than do individuals with normal urinary albumin levels.