The variants of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) genes might be involved in the pathogenesis of end stage renal disease (ESRD) and hypertension. We studied the ACE insertion/deletion (I/D) and MMP-7 A-181G variants in 99 unrelated ESRD patients and 117 individuals without renal complications from Western Iran with Kurdish ethnic background. The frequency ...

protein- energy malnutrition, wasting and inflammation are frequent complication among patients with end-stage renal disease (esrd). malnutrition is associated with cardiac co-morbidity, inflammation and poor survival in esrd patients. serum albumin is a well-known marker of nutrition in esrd patients. serum albumin is still the most commonly used nutritional marker in esrd patients. c-reactive...

the variants of angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) and matrix metalloproteinases (mmps) genes might be involved in the pathogenesis of end stage renal disease (esrd) and hypertension. we studied the ace insertion/deletion (i/d) and mmp-7 a-181g variants in 99 unrelated esrd patients and 117 individuals without renal complications from western iran with kurdish ethnic background. the frequency ...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients usually develop extensive and progressive vascular calcification, lots of calcification inhibitors as well procalcifying factors are involved in the process. However, mechanisms ESRD still ill-defined. In present study, we found that plasma exosomes derived from (ESRD-Ex) promoted smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) significantly, while transplant recipients (RTR...

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have a high mortality rate. We hypothesized that not accounting for death as a competing risk overestimates the event rate caused by ESRD. Thus, we examined the cancer risk for patients with ESRD (ESRD) after death as a competing risk event had been adjusted for. Patients with newly diagnosed ESRD (n = 64,299) between 1999 and 2007, together with age...

BACKGROUND Birth weight (BW) and family history (FH) of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have been shown to have an independent association with development of subsequent ESRD. This study was undertaken to determine the effects of BW (low BW suggesting a congenital reduction in functional nephron number) on the observed familial aggregation of ESRD. METHODS Cases were identified from the ESRD N...