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 …

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 …

The recent research findings concerning syndromes of muscle wasting, malnutrition, and
inflammation in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or acute kidney injury (AKI) …

Vascular calcification is an important risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) mortality in patients
with chronic kidney disease (CKD). It is also a complex process involving …

Background and objectives: Hemodialysis (HD)-induced myocardial stunning driven by
ischemia is a recognized complication of HD, which can be ameliorated by HD techniques …

ContextTotal cholesterol level is inversely associated with mortality in dialysis patients, a
group at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This paradox may be explained by …

Objectives To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients in different stages of
chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to initiation of dialysis treatment and to explore possible …

Acquired immunity disturbances in hemodialysis (HD) patients are many and diverse. They
are caused by uremia per se, the HD procedure, chronic renal failure complications, and …

Background The correlation of low serum albumin with mortality in patients with chronic
kidney disease (CKD) is partly linked to its association with systemic inflammation. However …

Based on in vitro data, protein-bound uremic retention solutes have increasingly been
recognized to play a pathophysiological role in the uremic syndrome. p-Cresol, a …