Stroke

Abstract

Stroke is a devastating co-morbidity in chronic kidney disease that is several -fold more common than in the general population. Although traditional cardiovascular risk factors account for much of the stroke risk in CKD, some risk factors like anemia and dyslipidemia are challenging to address in view of recent clinical trial data that do not seem to provide the full degree of expected benefit from risk factor correction as reviewed herein. Others such as hypertension and proteinuria reduction remain mainstays in stroke prevention. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Milan.