Stroke in ESRD: the other cardiovascular disease.

摘要

In 1998, the National Kidney Foundation convened a Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Renal Disease. The task force members reviewed the considerable evidence linking chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially in dialysis patients, with cardiac diseases, including heart failure, coronary disease, and cardiovascular mortality. However, in their review of cerebrovascular disease, the investigators were unable to draw any conclusions, noting: