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Nephrol Dial Transplant
; 12(4): 691-3, 1997 Apr.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9140995
RESUMO
Conventional risk factors have very low predictive power in identifying haemodialysis patients at high risk of vascular accidents. A role for apolipoprotein E isotypes was looked for in a small, but rigorously defined, cohort of longterm haemodialysis patients. In individuals with high vascular risk, as identified by higher common carotid intima/media thickness, we found an excess of apolipoprotein E4 alleles. This preliminary result requires confirmation in large patient cohorts.