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- Title
Decreased serum adrenal androgen dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and mortality in hemodialysis patients.
- Authors
Kakiya, Ryusuke; Shoji, Tetsuo; Hayashi, Tomoshige; Tatsumi-Shimomura, Naoko; Tsujimoto, Yoshihiro; Tabata, Tsutomu; Shima, Hideaki; Mori, Katsuhito; Fukumoto, Shinya; Tahara, Hideki; Koyama, Hidenori; Emoto, Masanori; Ishimura, Eiji; Nishizawa, Yoshiki; Inaba, Masaaki
- Abstract
Endocrine and metabolic abnormalities may affect the survival of hemodialysis patients. Serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), an adrenal androgen with anabolic properties, is known to be lowered in ill patients and predicts poor outcome in the general population and in those with cardiac disease. The aims of this study were to examine a possible change in the DHEA-S level in dialysis patients and its association with survival in this population.
- Publication
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 10, p3915
- ISSN
1460-2385
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfs162