Serum potassium levels and its variability in incident peritoneal dialysis patients: associations with mortality.

Serum potassium levels and its variability in incident peritoneal dialysis patients: associations with mortality.

BACKGROUND: Abnormal serum potassium is associated with an increased risk of mortality in dialysis patients. However, the impacts of serum potassium levels on short- and long-term mortality and association of potassium variability with death in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients are uncertain. METHOD...

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Main Authors: Qingdong Xu, Fenghua Xu, Li Fan, Liping Xiong, Huiyan Li, Shirong Cao, Xiaoyan Lin, Zhihua Zheng, Xueqing Yu, Haiping Mao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3903570?pdf=render

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