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Date:2/4/2008

idney Foundation, said in a prepared statement. "Treating high blood pressure aggressively in people with [kidney disease] could protect thousands -- if not millions -- of people from life-threatening complications of kidney failure."

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The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about chronic kidney disease.

-- Robert Preidt

SOURCE: National Kidney Foundation, news release, Feb. 1, 2008

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