Low serum levels of alkaline phosphatase of bone origin: a good marker of adynamic bone disease in haemodialysis patients

Abstract

In view of the relative easy and accurate methodology for bone alkaline phosphatase determination, the closer physiological link with osteoblast function and the lesser expense for its determination we suggest that this marker is a useful tool in the non-invasive diagnosis of the adynamic type of bone disease in the individual patient.