… calcification contributes to the high risk of cardiovascular mortality in chronic kidney disease
… is common in CKD patients and drives vascular calcification. In this article, we review the …

… have more calcification than arteries from age-matched … in arterial calcification in patients
with chronic kidney disease … chronic kidney disease and bone and arterial calcification in the …

… in CKD were hampered by the paucity of techniques capable of detecting reliably and
measuring objectively the extent of arterial calcification. Conventional radiographic methods were …

… calcified arteries [23], while others documented co-localization of OPG and calcium deposits
[24]. Our findings argue against an important role in arterial calcification … to the calcification …

… THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIAL CALCIFICATION The precise pathophysiology of arterial
calcification in CKD is still unknown. For many years, arterial calcification was considered to …

… stage kidney disease (CKD or ESKD) are unknown. We hypothesized that breast arterial
calcification … can serve as a useful marker of generalized medial calcification in CKD and ESKD. …

… The conflicting results can be explained by the fact that the arterial calcification score generated
by CT scanning is a composite of both medial and intimal calcification, and the fact that it …

… factor detected in human calcified arteries and with an elevated concentration in uraemia.
Deficiency of MGP in mice leads to spontaneous medial arterial calcification, 46 although a …

… Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients have two to five times more coronary artery calcification
… Vascular calcification is a strong prognostic marker of cardiovascular disease mortality in …

… stiffness and adverse cardiovascular events in CKD but the results of clinical trials have
thus been far been unconvincing, although a reduction in progression of arterial calcification is …