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.
