The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension may be the smallest in Internal Medicine, but during the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2021, they made big moves at the national level. Under the leadership of Division Director Chou-Long Huang, MD, PhD, the division submitted 17 accepted abstracts and presentations for the virtual conference earlier this month.

An abstract led by Diana Jalal, MD, associate professor, and Masaaki Yamada, MD, clinical assistant professor, was also featured in Renal & Urology News during Kidney Week. Jalal and Yamada’s study, Intensive Blood Pressure Control, Age, and All-Cause Mortality in the US Veterans Health Administration, examined the risks of intensive blood pressure control targeting systolic blood pressure levels on older veterans. Using real-world data from 1.9 million veterans, Jalal and Yamada found that cases with a mean systolic blood pressure level of less than 120 mm Hg was associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality. Furthermore, mortality rates increased with age and were more prevalent in veterans who were 70 and older. The work was done in collaboration with Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, PhD, associate professor in General Internal Medicine, and the manuscript is forthcoming.

In addition to Jalal and Yamada’s study, the 16 other abstracts accepted are listed below. Ten of these abstracts were conducted by the clinical research program.

American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2021: 17 accepted abstracts

Oral Presentation

• Nephrotoxin Exposure and AKI: A Magnitude Assessment Using NINJA Methodology in the Adult Population
  Benjamin R. Griffin, Hermann Hounkponou, Jason Misurac

Posters

• Intensive Blood Pressure Control, Age, and All-Cause Mortality in the US Veterans Health Administration

• Masaaki Yamada, Benjamin R. Griffin, Jason Wachsmuth, Meenakshi Sambharia, Melissa L. Swee, Saket R. Girotra, Heather Reisinger, Brian C. Lund, Mary V. Sarrazin, Diana I. Jalal

• Hypertension in the US Veteran Health Administration: Updates Prevalence and Risk Factors for Poor Blood Pressure Control
  Masaaki Yamada, Meenakshi Sambharia, Jason Wachsmuth, Benjamin R. Griffin, Melissa L. Swee, Saket R. Girotra, Heather Reisinger, Brian C. Lund, Mary V. Sarrazin, Diana I. Jalal

• AKI Stage is a Poor Predictor of Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes
  Benjamin R. Griffin, Jason Wachsmuth, Masaaki Yamada, Meenakshi Sambharia, Saket R. Girotra, Eli Perencevich, Heather Reisinger, Mary V. Sarrazin, Diana I. Jalal

• Admission Platelet Count Is an Independent Predictor of AKI
  Benjamin R. Griffin, Kelly Miell, Eli Perencevich, Heather Reisinger, Mary V. Sarrazin, Marin R. Schweitzer, Diana I. Jalal

• Risk Factors for Long-Term Mortality Following AKI
  Benjamin R. Griffin, Jason Wachsmuth, Masaaki Yamada, Meenakshi Sambharia, Saket R. Girotra, Eli Perencevich, Heather Reisinger, Mary V. Sarrazin, Diana I. Jalal

• Diabetes Mellitus Associates with Differences in the Metabolome of Patients with CKD
  Mingyao Sun, Patrick Ten eyck, Nicole G. Hines, Janes Buchanan, Eric Taylor, Diana I. Jalal

• Plasma Proteins Associated with eGFR and Incident Cardiovascular Events in the Cardiovascular Health Study Cohort
  Christine P. Limonte, Pranay S. Garimella, Robert Gerszten, Diana I. Jalal, Michelle Odden, Michael Shlipak, Nisha Bansal, Thomas R. Austin, Ian H. de Boer

• Single-Center Experience of ARPKD in Adults
  Meenakshi Sambharia, Sonali Gupta, Christie P. Thomas

• HDR: A Novel Mutation in GATA-3 with Variable Expressivity in an Affected Family
  Meenakshi Sambharia, Jason Misurac, Christie P. Thomas

• Lack of Insurance Predicts with Follow-Up Deficiencies After Living Kidney Donation
  Krista L. Lentine, Ngan Lam, Anthony N. Muiru, Andrea Tietjen, Huiling Xiao, Christie P. Thomas, Gwen E. Mcnatt, Amit X. Garg, Nagaraju Sarabu, Bertram L. Kasiske

• Polycystin 2 Mediates Endoplasmic Reticulum K+-Ca2+ Exchange to Protect Against Polycystic Kidney Disease
  Biswajit Padhy, Jian Xie, Chou-Long Huang

• Reduction of Klotho Promotes Cyst Growth and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in ADPKD
  Xiaoyan Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xia Zhou, James. P. Calvet, Chou-Long Huang, Xiaogang Li

• Unusual Cause of Recurrent Shortness of Breath in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient
  Sonali Gupta, Meenakshi Sambharia, Lama A. Noureddine

• Severe Kidney Injury Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Correlation of Mean Platelet Volume with Mortality at Multiple Time Intervals
  Sean Pickthorn, Nathaniel Hocker, Lewis Mann, Ravinandan Venkatasubramanian, Meenakshi Sambharia, Jonathan Nizar, Benjamin R. Griffin

• The Temporal Relationship Between Ultrafiltration and Mortality in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
  Nathaniel Hocker, Sean Pickthorn, Lewis Mann, Ravinandan Venkatasubranmanian, Meenakshi Sambharia, Jonathan Nizar, Benjamin R. Griffin

• Diagnostic dilemma: Glomerular Linear IgG deposits with Negative Anti-GBM Antibody
  Sonali Gupta, Meenakshi Sambharia, Danniele Gomes Holanda, Elyas Safar, Y-Chen Huang