Can we slow down the decline in renal function?

IF 1.7 4区 医学 Q3 CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS European Heart Journal Supplements Pub Date : 2025-02-19 eCollection Date: 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1093/eurheartjsupp/suae123
Gennaro Cice, Leonardo Calò
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The 'chronic kidney disease' (CKD) definition that best outlines the complex syndrome commonly called 'kidney failure' has become a problem of World Public Health due to its incidence and prevalence and due to exponentially increasing costs in every part of the world. The progressive reduction in the glomerular filtration rate, as known, goes hand in hand with an increase in cardiovascular risk understood as fatal and non-fatal heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and mortality. Therefore, every effort must aim at preventing or slowing down the decline in renal function in order to reduce not only critical renal events (the need for dialysis or transplantation among the most dreadful) but also the incidence of cardiovascular events. Since the disease is asymptomatic for a long time (often its detection is occasional and done with guilty delay), it is clearly important to make a correct and early evaluation of renal function with appropriate methods. Furthermore, it is crucial to make an aetiological diagnosis, when it is possible, of CKD because this will allow for the most targeted therapy possible. For a long time, an effective approach for the majority of people with CKD could only count on strict control of the diabetic disease and its complications, optimization of high blood pressure values, and the mandatory use of drugs blocking the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, particularly in the presence of albuminuria. Over time, this strategy proved to be only partially effective and the majority of patients nonetheless showed a progressive worsening of renal function. Only recently have we had access to two classes of innovative drugs such as glyphozines and incretins which have established themselves on the therapeutic scene because they have shown to be able to slow down the progression of CKD, first in patients with type 2 diabetes and subsequently in patients with CKD whether or not they have diabetes. Unexpectedly and convincingly, they have also been shown to significantly impact cardiovascular prognosis. From initially antidiabetic drugs, their effectiveness has forced the medical iconography to enrich itself with a new therapeutic niche by rightly speaking of 'cardio-nephro-metabolic' drugs.

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European Heart Journal Supplements
European Heart Journal Supplements 医学-心血管系统
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期刊介绍: The European Heart Journal Supplements (EHJs) is a long standing member of the ESC Journal Family that serves as a publication medium for supplemental issues of the flagship European Heart Journal. Traditionally EHJs published a broad range of articles from symposia to special issues on specific topics of interest. The Editor-in-Chief, Professor Roberto Ferrari, together with his team of eminent Associate Editors: Professor Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Professors Jeroen Bax, Michael Böhm, Frank Ruschitzka, and Thomas Lüscher from the European Heart Journal, has implemented a change of focus for the journal. This entirely refreshed version of the European Heart Journal Supplements now bears the subtitle the Heart of the Matter to give recognition to the focus the journal now has. The EHJs – the Heart of the Matter intends to offer a dedicated, scientific space for the ESC, Institutions, National and Affiliate Societies, Associations, Working Groups and Councils to disseminate their important successes globally.
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