Heart failure (HF) is a major health-care problem and the prognosis of affected patients is
poor. HF often coexists with a number of comorbidities of which declining renal function is of …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of death in patients with chronic kidney
disease (CKD). Both conditions are rising in incidence as well as prevalence, creating poor …

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) plays a critical function in many tissues of the body: for example, as
part of the hydroxyapatite in the skeleton and as a substrate for ATP synthesis. Pi is the main …

Accelerated cardiovascular disease is a frequent complication of renal disease. Chronic
kidney disease promotes hypertension and dyslipidemia, which in turn can contribute to the …

Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) and inflammation are common and usually concurrent in
maintenance dialysis patients. Many factors that appear to lead to these 2 conditions …

Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in maintenance dialysis patients.
Conventional risk factors of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population …

Potassium (K), the main cation inside cells, plays roles in maintaining cellular osmolarity and
acid–base equilibrium, as well as nerve stimulation transmission, and regulation of cardiac …

Background Malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome, an outcome predictor in
maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients, may be related to anorexia. Objectives We …

This study determined the effects of probiotic supplementation on glycemic control, lipid
concentrations, biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in 60 diabetic patients on …

The first reports connecting uremic inflammation with a wasted and atherogenic phenotype
and poor outcome initiated in the late 1990s. Since then, about 3500 publications appear on …