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. 2015 Jul 14;2015(7):CD010294. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010294.pub2

Ulusoy 2010.

Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Duration of study: not reported

  • Follow‐up: 12 months

  • ADPKD assessment: Echo

Participants
  • Country: Turkey

  • Setting: single centre

  • Stage 1–2 hypertensive ADPKD patients (according to the JNC VII classification); eGFR > 30 mL/min/1.73 m2; aged 18 to 70 years

  • Number: treatment group (19); control group (13)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): treatment group (51 ± 10); control group (48 ± 13)

  • Sex (M/F): treatment group (6/13); control group (7/6)

  • Exclusion criteria: other kidney illness or comorbidity, including DM; CHF; liver function failure; pregnancy, lactation; using anti‐arrhythmic; oral contraceptive use; immunosuppressive and steroid use; psychiatric disorders

Interventions Treatment group
  • Losartan: 50 to 100 mg/d


Control group
  • Ramipril: 2.5 to 10 mg/d


Duration of intervention
  • 12 months

Outcomes
  • BP

  • LVMI

  • Kidney function

Notes
  • Funding source: not reported

Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement