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Medical College of Georgia joins study of best treatment approach for narrowed kidney arteries

Published in Drug Week, January 12th, 2007

Whether reopening narrowed kidney arteries benefits patients is a $1.7 billion question a North American study hopes to answer. Doctors from the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) have joined the Cardiovascular Outcomes in Renal Atherosclerotic Lesions or CORAL study to help find answers.

One to three million Americans, most over age 50 and with uncontrolled high blood pressure, have narrowed renal arteries that can reduce kidney function, causing even more blood pressure problems.

"If you have peripheral vascular disease, if you have uncontrolled hypertension, there is a possibility you also are going to have renal artery stenosis," said Dr. Harold...

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