TY - JOUR T1 - The Authors' response JF - Heart JO - Heart DO - 10.1136/hrt.2010.195867 SP - hrt.2010.195867 AU - H J Simpson AU - S J Gandy AU - J G Houston AU - A D Struthers Y1 - 2010/01/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2010/05/17/hrt.2010.195867.abstract N2 - The Authors' response: We thank Chue et al1 for their letter in response to our paper.2 In general, we agree with them and are grateful to them for saying that our results are consistent with their paper where spironolactone reduced left ventricular (LV) mass in renal patients.3 There are some differences between the papers worth commenting on. In our paper, the baseline mean office systolic blood pressure (BP) was 122 mm Hg, whereas in their study, it was higher at … ER -