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    The association between blood nickel level and handgrip strength in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis

    Progressive loss of peripheral muscle strength is highly pronounced in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), of which the pathological mechanism tends to be multifactorial. Plasma nickel was repor...

    Ruiying Tang, Jiexin Chen, Huijuan Ma, Jihong Deng in International Urology and Nephrology (2024)

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    Associations of vitamin K status with mortality and cardiovascular events in peritoneal dialysis patients

    Vitamin K deficiency, expressed by a high level of desphospho-uncarboxylated matrix GLA protein (dp-ucMGP), is highly prevalent in dialysis patients. However, the predictive ability of the vitamin K status rem...

    Qingdong Xu, Huankai Guo, Shirong Cao, Qian Zhou in International Urology and Nephrology (2019)