Discharge home with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers was associated with a decreased risk of heart failure and severe renal dysfunction.
We assessed frequency and severity of renal insufficiency in our patients with SSc and estimated the association of renal insufficiency with age, disease duration, subtype of the disease, earlier diagnosed arterial hypertension, and medications for which we assumed to affect renal function-cytostatics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoids, ACE inhibitors, diuretics, and calcium channel blockers (CCB).
We analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cardiovascular pathophysiology (including AGT1R T573C, AGT1R A1166C, and AGTM235T) and presence of renal dysfunction (eGFR<60 ml/min/1.73 m2) or history of CHD.
Compared with patients without renal dysfunction, the frequency of DD and ID genotypes of ACE gene was much higher in those with renal dysfunction, but AC and CC genotypes of AT1R gene were not.
A prospective population-based study of CKD risk was conducted among 3706 black individuals without severe renal dysfunction at baseline (serum creatinine > or =177 micromol/L [2.0 mg/dl] for men, > or =159 micromol/L [1.8 mg/dl] for women) to examine associations with AGT and AT1R.
In this study, the angiotensinogen -235T allele was found to be related with steroid resistance, renal dysfunction and progression of ESRD in nephrotic syndrome.
There was no significant relationship detected between the D allele of ACE, the C allele of AT1R or the T allele of AGT genes and response to steroid therapy, extent of renal dysfunction and the progression to ESRD.
The associations AGT TT-AT1R AC and CYP11B2 CC-ACE DD showed a possible positive interaction in the development of renal insufficiency among hypertensive subjects.
Recently it was reported that polymorphism at -20 from adenine to cytosine in the angiotensinogen gene, increasing the level of this transcript, was associated with the progression of renal dysfunction in adult IgA nephropathy.
We studied retrospectively the role of angiotensinogen (AGT) M235T, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D), angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) A1166C, aldosterone syntase (CYP11B2) -344C/T and intron 2 W/C polymorphisms in conjunction with clinical and biochemical covariables on the rate of progression of renal insufficiency in a group of patients with ESRD of various etiologies.
We studied retrospectively the role of angiotensinogen (AGT) M235T, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D), angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) A1166C, aldosterone syntase (CYP11B2) -344C/T and intron 2 W/C polymorphisms in conjunction with clinical and biochemical covariables on the rate of progression of renal insufficiency in a group of patients with ESRD of various etiologies.
These findings suggest an interaction between ACE and ADD1 polymorphisms not only on blood pressure regulation but also on the progression of renal dysfunction in patients with IgAN.
There were no significant differences between the distribution of ACE gene genotypes and lupus nephritis and its related parameters, including WHO classification, activity index, chronicity index, renal dysfunction and amount of 24 h urinary protein.
Most angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and their metabolites are excreted renally and doses should hence be reduced in renal insufficiency.
In single-gene analyses with adjustment for significant covariables, the risk for mild renal dysfunction was positively associated with the ACE D allele.
The results in this study in non-diabetic patients with chronic renal disease indicate that the presence of the D allele in the ACE genotype may be of particular importance as a predictor of a high rate of progression in male patients who otherwise do not have a major burden of documented and important prognostic factors for progressive renal insufficiency.
We observed a significant association of the deletion polymorphism of ACE gene with renal insufficiency, hypertension and severe glomerular lesions at biopsy.
In subjects with normal renal function there was a strong exponential relation between hemoglobin and erythropoietin, whereas in renal impairment (eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73m²) this relation was linear (men) or absent (women) (P < 0.001 for interaction).