Cardiovascular Risk Across Different Glomerular Diseases.

Within a cohort of 66,247 patients with glomerulonephritis, immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy (39%) was the most prevalent etiology, followed by lupus nephritis (17%) and membranous nephropathy (16%).

The overall crude cardiovascular death rates across glomerulonephritis subtypes ranged from 0.7 to 22.6 per 1,000 person-years.

Furthermore, when compared directly to patients with minimal change disease, all other glomerulonephritis subtypes were associated with significantly greater cardiovascular death risk.