Serum hepcidin may be a novel uremic toxin, which might be related to erythropoietin resistance

Abstract The clinical importance of serum hepcidin in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is unclear. The database of a large-scale multicentre prospective study in Korea of 2238 patients enrolled from 2011–2016 was analysed. After excluding patients with missing serum hepcidin (n = 1...

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Main Authors: Sung Woo Lee, Jeong Min Kim, Hye Jin Lim, Young-Hwan Hwang, Soo Wan Kim, Wookyung Chung, Kook-Hwan Oh, Curie Ahn, Kyu-Beck Lee, Su Ah Sung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04664-y