Association between zinc deficiency and aorta stiffness in non-diabetic hemodialysis patients

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• who: Kunihiro Ishioka and colleagues from the Kidney Disease and Transplant Center, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, JapanEditor: Xian Wu Cheng, Yanbian University have published the research: Association between zinc deficiency and aorta stiffness in non-diabetic hemodialysis patients, in the Journal: PLOS ONE
• what: The 79 (49 men, 62%) patients that were analyzed in this study had a median age of 70 (IQR 62-79) years, and a median hemodialysis duration of 6.9 (IQR 2.3-15.6) years. This study showed that ABI in ZD group was significantly lower than that of . . .
  

   

  

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