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Interaction between acyl-ghrelin and BMI predicts clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients

BACKGROUND: Ghrelin, a gastric orexigenic peptide, and body mass index (BMI) are known as inversely associated to each other and are both linked to cardiovascular (CV) risk and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. However, it is unclear whether the interaction between ghrelin and BM...

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Autores principales: Beberashvili, Ilia, Sinuani, Inna, Azar, Ada, Shapiro, Gregory, Feldman, Leonid, Doenyas-Barak, Keren, Stav, Kobi, Efrati, Shai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5242040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28100170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0442-8