Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 80-83, March 2009

The message for World Kidney Day 2009: hypertension and kidney disease: a marriage that should be prevented

  • George L. Bakris, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Hypertensive Diseases Unit, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • ,
  • Eberhard Ritz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • on behalf of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: World Kidney Day 2009 Steering Committee: William Couser and Paul Beerkens, co-Chairmen. Tom Reiser and Jan Lantink, Project Directors. Georgi Abraham, Alan Collins, John Feehally, Joel Kopple, Philip Li, Miguel Riella, Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, and Anne Wilson.

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 Reprinted with Permission from Archives of Iranian Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 1 January 2009, pgs. 102–105.

 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S1933-1711(09)00010-2

doi:10.1016/j.jash.2009.02.001

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 80-83, March 2009

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