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Environmental and behavioral factors are associated with seasonal variation in BP. To prevent cardiovascular events, the management of hypertension while taking seasonal variation into consideration may be important.
Low levels of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are associated with cardiovascular (CV) diseases. Our results demonstrated an etiological link between EPCs and morpho-functional vascular parameters in hypertensive subjects, justifying vascular damage progression.
The UNa/K ratio is considered to be a superior biomarker to either UNa or UK alone for discriminating the prognosis of kidney disease progression in patients with CKD.