Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients
Brief Summary: We will directly test the hypothesis that an initial strategy of lisinopril-based therapy will be more effective than atenolol-based therapy in causing regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) over one year in patients with hemodialysis hypertension despite similar degree of BP reduction.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* On hemodialysis for 3 to 18 months and expected to remain on hemodialysis for at least two more years and with a life expectancy of a year or more
* Kidney transplant patients, whose transplant has failed, and now have been on hemodialysis for 3-18 months, may be eligible for the study, if they are not receiving excessive immunosuppression (e.g., \<=10 mg of steroids/day allowed)
* Pre-dialysis hemoglobin 8-12 g/dL, inclusive, within the previous month (single reading is sufficient)
* Stable hemodialysis vascular access, within the previous 3 months
* No heart disease or asymptomatic heart disease without enlarged heart

Exclusion Criteria:

* Heart diseases for which surgical intervention occurred during the previous two years or which may require intervention within the next year
* Patients with medical conditions likely to affect the response to epoetin
* Predialysis sitting diastolic blood pressure \>= 100 mmHg on average for the previous month
* Folate, Vitamin B12, or transferrin deficiency
* History of seizure within 1 year
* Transfusion within 30 days prior to study entry.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥ 18 years
* Maintenance hemodialysis with hemodialysis vintage of at least 30 days
* Ability to read and understand the English language and give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Dialysis treatment frequencies other than three times per week
* Hospitalisations or antibiotics-dependent infection during the 8 weeks preceding enrollment
* Central venous catheter as hemodialysis access
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* signed informed consent
* patients of either sex aged ≥ 18 years
* stable chronic dialysis patients undergoing a 3x/week high-flux dialysis for at least three months
* patients without planned or predictable changes within diet, anticoagulation and medication regimen

Exclusion Criteria:

* pregnancy or lactation or woman in child bearing age without effective contraception
* planned surgeries or hospital stay within the next 9 weeks
* use of catheter as vascular access for dialysis
* severe comorbidities not allowing to follow the study protocol
* concomitant participation in another study
* previous participation in this study
D: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients on chronic hemodialysis for \> 3 mos.
2. Compliance with hemodialysis treatments as defined by less than one missed dialysis per month
3. Hypertension as diagnosed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) \>135/75 mm Hg after participation in the ultrafiltration (UF) Trial, or those on no antihypertensive medications but unwilling to do UF Trial.
4. Presence of LVH on echocardiogram defined as left ventricular mass index (LVMi) \>104 g/m2 in women and \>116 g/m2 in men.
5. Willingness to give informed consent.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Vascular event (stroke, myocardial infarction or limb ischemia requiring bypass) within previous six months
2. Noncompliance with hemodialysis treatments
3. Known drug abuse
4. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) requiring home oxygen
5. Congestive Heart Failure Class III or IV.
6. Body mass index \> 40 kg/m2.
7. Known contraindication to atenolol (severe heart failure, bradycardia, bronchial asthma, intolerance or allergy) or lisinopril (cough, pregnancy, intolerance or allergy)

Answer: D