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SUBMITTER: Borrelli S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8000881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borrelli Silvio S De Nicola Luca L Minutolo Roberto R Conte Giuseppe G Chiodini Paolo P Cupisti Adamasco A Santoro Domenico D Calabrese Vincenzo V Giannese Domenico D Garofalo Carlo C Provenzano Michele M Bellizzi Vincenzo V Apicella Luca L Piccoli Giorgina Barbara GB Torreggiani Massimo M Di Iorio Biagio Raffaele BR
Nutrients 20210315 3
<h4>Background</h4>No study has explored the limitations of current long-term management of hyperkalemia (HK) in outpatient CKD clinics.<h4>Methods</h4>We evaluated the association between current therapeutic options and control of serum K (sK) during 12-month follow up in ND-CKD patients stratified in four groups by HK (sK ≥ 5.0 mEq/L) at baseline and month 12: Absent (no-no), Resolving (yes-no), New Onset (no-yes), Persistent (yes-yes).<h4>Results</h4>We studied 562 patients (age 66.2 ± 14.5 y ...[more]