Death rates among Americans from hypertensive kidney disease—high blood pressure-related kidney disease—surged by nearly 50 percent over the past 25 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) said in a Sept. 4 statement.
Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database from 1999 to 2023, checking all death certificates with cause of death as hypertensive renal disease.
“Kidney disease caused by high blood pressure resulted in 274,667 deaths from 1999-2023 among individuals ages 15 and older,” AHA said in the statement.
During this period, it said, “the age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) for hypertensive kidney disease deaths rose from 3.3 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 4.91 per 100,000 people in 2023, an increase of 48%.”…