Carotid artery stiffness in patients with end-stage renal disease: no effect of long-term homocysteine-lowering therapy. - Concepedia

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Carotid artery stiffness in patients with end-stage renal disease: no effect of long-term homocysteine-lowering therapy.

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2000

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Coen van Guldener, J Lambert, Piet M. ter Wee, A J Donker, Coen D.A. Stehouwer

Abstract

Folic acid treatment of hyperhomocysteinemia has no major effect on carotid artery stiffness in chronic dialysis patients. The results do, however, emphasize the importance of tight blood pressure control in these patients.