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Balancing risk: anemia or albuminuria when using ACEi/ARB?

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Key takeaways

This is a short discussion of a common trade-off: blood-pressure drugs called ACE inhibitors or ARBs protect the kidneys but can worsen anemia (too few red blood cells). It is a commentary, not a new study.

Who did this work

Jeffrey Lebensburger (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Source

Indexed paper · OpenAlex — CKD concept sweep (DB seed + weekly delta) · 2026-08-06
https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2026034927