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Both low and high serum ferritin levels predict mortality risk in hemodialysis patients without inflammation

BACKGROUND: Serum ferritin concentration >100 ng/mL was associated with a higher risk of death in hemodialysis patients in Japan, whereas such an association was less clear in hemodialysis patients in Western countries. Since Japanese dialysis patients are generally less inflamed than those in We...

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Autores principales: Shoji, Tetsuo, Niihata, Kakuya, Fukuma, Shingo, Fukuhara, Shunichi, Akizawa, Tadao, Inaba, Masaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5517589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27503345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10157-016-1317-1