Thursday, April 2, 2015

Hormone, bone tests may be indicative of dialysis patients' heart health

Approximately 2 million kidney disease patients in the world receive some sort of dialysis treatment. Now researchers say that in these patients, high parathyroid hormone levels and subsequent bone loss are major risk factors for worsening of coronary artery calcification.



from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1FnUmvA via Karis World

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