Serum Fetuin-A Levels Are Associated with Vascular Calcifications and Predict Cardiovascular Events in Renal Transplant Recipients | Zendy

Céline Maréchal | Zendy; Georg Schlieper | Zendy; Pauline Nguyen | Zendy; Thilo Krüger | Zendy; Emmanuel Coche | Zendy; Annie Robert | Zendy; Jorgen Floege | Zendy; Éric Goffin | Zendy; Michel Jadoul | Zendy; Olivier Devuyst | Zendy

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Serum Fetuin-A Levels Are Associated with Vascular Calcifications and Predict Cardiovascular Events in Renal Transplant Recipients

Author(s) -

Céline Maréchal,

Georg Schlieper,

Pauline Nguyen,

Thilo Krüger,

Emmanuel Coche,

Annie Robert,

Jorgen Floege,

Éric Goffin,

Michel Jadoul,

Olivier Devuyst

Publication year - 2011

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.06150710

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , biomarker , fetuin , cardiology , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , gastroenterology , biochemistry , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , glycoprotein , biology

Vascular calcifications predict cardiovascular disease, the major cause of death in renal transplant recipients (RTRs). We studied the determinants of fetuin-A, a potent circulating calcification inhibitor encoded by the AHSG gene, and tested its association with vascular calcifications and long-term survival and cardiovascular events (CVEs) in RTRs.

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