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Time to target uric acid to retard CKD progression.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Apr 2017
Kumagai Takanori, Ota Tatsuru, Tamura Yoshifuru, Chang Wen Xiu, Shibata Shigeru, Uchida Shunya
Abstract excerpt
Uric acid (UA) remains a possible risk factor of chronic kidney disease (CKD) but its potential role should be elucidated given a fact that multidisciplinary treatments assure a sole strategy to inhibit the progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In clinical setting, most observational studies showed that elevation of serum uric acid (SUA) independently predicts the incidence and the development of CKD....
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