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Racial-ethnic differences in chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder in youth on dialysis.

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      eScholarship, University of California, 2019.
    • الموضوع:
      2019
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      BackgroundStudies in healthy pediatric populations and adults treated with dialysis demonstrate higher parathyroid hormone (PTH) and lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in African-Americans. Despite these findings, African-Americans on dialysis demonstrate greater bone strength and a decreased risk of fracture compared to the Caucasian dialysis population. The presence of such differences in children and young adult dialysis patients is unknown.MethodsDifferences in the markers of mineral and bone metabolism (MBM) were assessed in 661 incident dialysis patients (aged 1 month to
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    • الرقم المعرف:
      edssch.oai:escholarship.org/ark:/13030/qt4xj1p6fd