Open AccessClinical Correlates of Insulin Sensitivity and Its Association with Mortality among Men with CKD Stages 3 and 4
Author(s) -
Hong Xu,
Xiaoyan Huang,
Johan Ärnlöv,
Tommy Cederholm,
Peter Stenvinkel,
Bengt Lindholm,
Ulf Risérus,
Juan Jesús Carrero
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.05230513
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , confidence interval , diabetes mellitus , hazard ratio , population , prospective cohort study , insulin resistance , proportional hazards model , impaired fasting glucose , body mass index , insulin , endocrinology , impaired glucose tolerance , environmental health
Insulin resistance participates in the pathogenesis of multiple metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. CKD patients have impaired insulin sensitivity, but the clinical correlates and outcome associations of impaired insulin sensitivity in this vulnerable population are not well defined.
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