Circulating angiopoietin-2 is a marker for early cardiovascular disease in children on chronic dialysis.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasingly recognised as a complication of childhood chronic kidney disease (CKD) even in the absence of diabetes and hypertension. We hypothesized that an alteration in angiopoietin-1 and -2, growth factors which regulate endothelial and vascular function could be...

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Main Authors: Rukshana C Shroff, Karen L Price, Maria Kolatsi-Joannou, Alexandra F Todd, David Wells, John Deanfield, Richard J Johnson, Lesley Rees, Adrian S Woolf, David A Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0056273&type=printable
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