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SUBMITTER: Suh SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8745733 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suh Sang Heon SH Oh Tae Ryom TR Choi Hong Sang HS Kim Chang Seong CS Oh Kook-Hwan KH Lee Joongyub J Oh Yun Kyu YK Jung Ji Yong JY Choi Kyu Hun KH Ma Seong Kwon SK Bae Eun Hui EH Kim Soo Wan SW On Behalf Of The Korean Cohort Study For Outcomes In Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Know-Ckd Investigators
Journal of clinical medicine 20211229 1
Circulating osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a biomarker for cardiovascular complications that are closely related to chronic kidney disease (CKD). To investigate the association between circulating OPG level with long-term visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) in patients with pre-dialysis CKD, a total of 1855 subjects with CKD from stage 1 to pre-dialysis stage 5 from a prospective cohort were analyzed. Long-term visit-to-visit BPV was determined by average real variability (ARV), standard d ...[more]