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Vascular calcification is the major cause of cardiovascular disease in patients with CKD and is shown to be a strong independent predictor of mortality in the dialysis population. Using cell culture models we investigated the potential for uremic serum from patients on haemodialysis to induce intercellular signalling that has a potential to induce calcification.
Dockrell et al. (Mon,) studied this question.