American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 51, Issue 2 , Pages 192-198 , February 2008

Race and Sex Differences in Hypertension Control in CKD: Results From the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP)

  • Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
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  • Suying Li, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, USRDS Coordinating Center, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Claudine Jurkovitz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes Research, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
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  • George Bakris, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisions of Preventive Medicine, Hypertension, and Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago
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  • Wendy Brown, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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  • Shu-Cheng Chen, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, USRDS Coordinating Center, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Allan Collins, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, USRDS Coordinating Center, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Michael Klag, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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  • Peter A. McCullough, MD

      Affiliations

    • Divisions of Cardiology, Nutrition, and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
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  • Janet McGill, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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  • Andrew Narva, MD

      Affiliations

    • National Kidney Disease Education Program, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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  • Pablo Pergola, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
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  • Ajay Singh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Keith Norris, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Lynwood, CA.

Received 2 June 2007 ,Accepted 24 September 2007.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.09.023 on December 28, 2007.

PII: S0272-6386(07)01447-3

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.09.023

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 51, Issue 2 , Pages 192-198 , February 2008

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