Speaker Notes

Program Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• State the new blood pressure target for non-diabetes patients with CKD and understand the rationale for this change.
• Identify the risk of developing CKD from hypertension, which is graded based on race and comorbidities.
• Understand that presence of CKD in non-diabetes, hypertensive patients increases the risk for cardiovascular outcomes.