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The VITAH Trial Vitamin D supplementation and cardiac autonomic tone in hemodialysis: a blinded, randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have a high rate of mortality and specifically an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Impaired cardiac autonomic tone is associated with elevated risk of SCD. Moreover, patients with ESKD are often vitamin D deficient, which we have...

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Autores principales: Mann, Michelle C, Exner, Derek V, Hemmelgarn, Brenda R, Hanley, David A, Turin, Tanvir C, MacRae, Jennifer M, Ahmed, Sofia B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25098377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-15-129