Long-term comparison of a calcium-free phosphate binder and calcium carbonate - phosphorus metabolism and cardiovascular calcification - Concepedia

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Long-term comparison of a calcium-free phosphate binder and calcium carbonate - phosphorus metabolism and cardiovascular calcification

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2004

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J. Braun, Hans-Gernot Asmus, H. Hölzer, R. Brunkhorst, R. Krause, Walter Schulz, H.-H. Neumayer, Paolo Raggi, J. Bömmer

Clinical Nephrology

Abstract

Sevelamer is an effective phosphate binder that unlike calcium carbonate is not associated with progressive cardiovascular calcification in hemodialysis patients.