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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(2):466-470; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm904
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© The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org


What's new in hypertension 2007?

Johannes F. E. Mann

Munich General Hospitals, Ludwig Maximilians University Munchen and German Institute for High Blood Pressure Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Johannes F. E. Mann, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Schwabing General Hospital, LMU, KFH Kidney Center, Kolner Platz 1, D-80804 Munchen, Germany. Tel: +49-89-3068-2386; Fax: +49-89-3068-3917; Email: johannes.mann@kms.mhn.de

Keywords: blood pressure; cardiovascular; renal insufficiency; review; stroke

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   Introduction
 
The aim of this editorial comment is to inform NDT readers of new information in the field of hypertension from mid-2006 to 2007 that has not been published in nephrological journals. No doubt the choice of topics will be very subjective; Pubmed lists 2625 citations in the last 12 months with ‘hypertension’ as the major topic, of which 437 are reviews. These numbers almost double if all citations are listed. In addition, the European Societies of Hypertension and of Cardiology have issued a hypertension guideline of more than 80 pages [1].



   Human studies
 
Passive smoking in children: no effect on blood pressure but on endothelial function
Smoking and hypertension are major contributors to cardiovascular disease and to incident end-stage renal disease. Little information exists on the effects of passive smoking in young children. Kallio et al. [2] presented data from a prospective atherosclerosis prevention trial in Finland, enrolling 1054 children below the age of 1 year. At the age . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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