Vascular calcification and cardiovascular function in chronic kidney disease

• Published in: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 707 - 714
• Main Authors: Sigrist, Mhairi, Bungay, Peter, Taal, Maarter W., McIntyre, Christopher W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.03.2006; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; arterial stiffness; Biological and medical sciences; calcification; Calcinosis - etiology; Calcinosis - mortality; Calcinosis - physiopathology; cardiovascular mortality; chronic kidney failure; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management; Female; Femoral Artery - diagnostic imaging; Femoral Artery - physiopathology; haemodialysis; haemodynamics; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Kidneys; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases; Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure; peritoneal dialysis; phosphate binder; Renal Dialysis; Renal failure; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Survival Rate; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Tumors of the urinary system; Vascular Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Vascular Diseases - etiology; Vascular Diseases - physiopathology; Vascular Resistance - physiology; Kidney disease; Phosphates; arterial stiffness; Urinary system disease; Hemodialysis; Mortality; cardiovascular mortality; haemodialysis; Cardiovascular disease; phosphate binder; Binders; chronic kidney failure; Peritoneal dialysis; Extrarenal dialysis; Renal failure; Calcification; Stiffness; Hemodynamics; haemodynamics

Background. Vascular calcification and arterial stiffening are independent predictors of all causes and cardiovascular mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Few data are currently available comparing vascular calcification and its attendant functional cardiovascular consequences between CKD sta...