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Managing mineral bone disease (MBD) could reduce cardiovascular risk and improve the survival of dialysis patients. Our study focuses on the impact of calcium bath exposure in dialysis patients by comparing peritoneal dialysis patients (PD, intervention group) and hemodialysis patients (HD, control group). We assessed various factors, including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, PTH, vitamin D 25-OH, C-terminal telopeptide (CTX), and FGF-23 levels, as well as the calcium bath six hours before the blood sample and the length of daily calcium exposure. We enrolled 40 PD and 31 HD patients with a mean age of 68.7 ± 13.6 years. Our cohort had median PTH and FGF-23 levels of 194 ng/L (Interquartile range IQR 130-316) and 1296 pg/mL (IQR 396-2698), respectively. We identified the length of exposure to a 1.25 mmol/L calcium bath, phosphate levels, and CTX as independent predictors of PTH (OR 0.279,
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