A patient with chronic kidney disease is diagnosed with hypertension. The nurse understands that this patient's blood pressure needs to be controlled for which reason?
A) Treating hypertension can slow the decline of kidney function.
B) Hypertension must be controlled for any other treatment for kidney disease to be effective.
C) The medications used to treat hypertension also reverse physical changes associated with chronic kidney failure.
D) Everyone should have low-normal blood pressure.
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