Blood pressure elevation in hemodialysis patients after the Great East Japan Earthquake

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Blood pressure elevation in hemodialysis patients after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Por: Yoshihiro Tani, Masaaki Nakayama, Kenichi Tanaka, Yoshimitsu Hayashi, Koichi Asahi, Tatsuhiko Kamata, Masahiko Ogihara, Keiji Sato, Masato Matsushima y Tsuyoshi Watanabe.  Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 139–144.

A major earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck northeastern Japan at 2:46 pm on 11 March 2011. Several reports have described transient increases in blood pressure after major earthquakes, but the impact of such increases on hemodialysis patients has not been reported. We retrospectively investigated changes in blood pressure and influencing factors in 205 patients (mean age 66.6±13.0 years; male 51.7%; median dialysis vintage 6.0 (2.0–11.0) years) on chronic dialysis at three dialysis centers in the affected area (Fukushima City) for 8 weeks after the earthquake.