Background Arteriosclerosis is a pathological, structural (media vascular calcification) and
physiological (modified vascular smooth vessel cells; increased arterial stiffness) alteration …

Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is the most frequent complication of hemodialysis (HD)
treatments with a frequency of 10% to 12% for patients with chronic kidney disease …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with excess cardiovascular mortality, resulting
from both traditional and nontraditional, CKD‐specific, cardiovascular risk factors …

Aim: Vitamin D insufficiency and increased parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels have been
suggested as prognostic indices for cardiovascular disease. Arterial stiffness, a surrogate …

The increased cardiovascular risk of chronic kidney disease may in part be the
consequence of arterial stiffness, a typical feature of kidney failure. Deranged homeostasis …

Background: The association between the CYP17A1 and ATP2B1 SNPs and essential
hypertension (referred to as hypertension) is far from being consistent. In addition to the …

Like hemodialysis patients, peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients are facing an excessively
increased burden of vascular and valvular calcification. According to some surveys, more …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the first cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD)
mortality. For personalized improved medicine, detecting correctable markers of CVD can be …

Impact of Dialysate Calcium Concentration on Clinical Outcom... : Medicine Impact of Dialysate
Calcium Concentration on Clinical Outcomes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients : Medicine …

Genome-wide association studies have identified the ATP2B1 gene associated with blood
pressure (BP), the evidence from large scale Chinese population was still rare. We …