Global Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in the Management of Primary Hypertension: The Role of the Kidney

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Looking for hypertensive target organ damage in clinical practice: the role of the kidney. Proposed diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm for the management of hypertension. A rational, cost-effective search for organ damage must start from low-cost, easy-to-perform tests and proceed to more expensive ones only in patients resulting at relatively low overall risk on the basis of previous risk stratification (modified from [27]).