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Fat tissue accumulation during peritoneal dialysis is associated with a polymorphism in uncoupling protein 2.
Kidney international - 1 Apr 2000
Nordfors L, Heimbürger O, Lönnqvist F, Lindholm B, Helmrich J, Schalling M, Stenvinkel P
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BACKGROUND: Chronic treatment with peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a unique long-term metabolic procedure entailing a continuous 24-hour supply of glucose absorbed from the dialysis fluid. One common and important side effect of this treatment is weight gain and accumulation of body fat stores. However, not all patients accumulate body fat mass during PD, and the reason for this is not clear. Recently, two new...
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