Why the study?
Do baseline serum lipids predict cardiac death in diabetic patients starting maintenance hemodialysis?
Population
196 diabetic patients newly admitted to maintenance hemodialysis across 28 German centers. Type I: median…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
45 months
Authors
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Baseline lipids were associated with MI death in diabetic HD starters; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Do baseline serum lipids predict cardiac death in diabetic patients starting maintenance hemodialysis?
Elevated baseline serum lipids, particularly total and LDL cholesterol, are significant predictors of subsequent cardiac death from myocardial infarction in diabetic patients starting maintenance hemodialysis.
Tschöpe et al. (2008) studied this question.
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