Worsening kidney function is the major mechanism of heart failure in hypertension: the ALLHAT study

Our manuscript is accepted for publication and published 11/11/2020 in the JACC: Heart Failure !!! The first author of the manuscript is Dr. Khayyat Kholghi, OHSU Internal Medicine Resident. Congratulations!!! Our study showed that kidney dysfunction is the major mechanism of heart failure. We used causal mediation analysis - the most advanced and novel analytical approach to study mechanisms of the diseases in clinical studies. STATA statistical analyses code is provided here.