text: An estimated 10 to 20 million people have chronic kidney<unk>  (CKD). While many will never develop kidney failure, others will, joining more than 400,000 people annually treated with dialysis or a kidney transplant. Cardiovascular disorders accounts for half of all deaths among people with kidney failure.
  Cardiovascular<unk>  accounts for more than half of all deaths among people with<unk>  failure.
  Even early or mild kidney<unk>  places a person at higher risk of acute coronary syndromes and heart failure, as well as cardiovascular<unk>  related death.
  Hypertension (high blood pressure) and diabetes are major risk factors for chronic kidney<unk>  and heart<unk> . The development of chronic kidney<unk>  in persons with diabetes or hypertension further increases the risk of developing cardiovascular<unk> .
  Hypertension increases the risk of cardiovascular<unk> , and severe hypertension can cause extensive and rapidly progressive kidney damage. Newer medications that better control blood pressure, however, can slow the rate of kidney damage only by about 50 percent.
  In comparison, death from cardiovascular<unk>  is 10 to 30 times more likely in dialysis patients.
  Kidney<unk>  by itself increases the risk of cardiovascular<unk> , even with concurrent diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
  Numerous studies reported that kidney<unk>  accelerates heart<unk> , even before the kidneys are damaged to the point of needing dialysis or transplantation.
option_0: Renal disease and the heart
option_1: Pediatrics
option_2: Autoimmune disease and the heart
option_3: Biomedical tissue
option_4: Cancer survivors
option_5: Anasarca patient information
option_6: Cardiac diseases in AIDS surgery
option_7: Acute kidney injury surgery