Bone fracture history and prospective bone fracture risk of hemodialysis patients are related to apolipoprotein E genotype.

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This investigation of 219 hemodialysis patients relates the history and prospective risk of bone fractures to apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype. A greater percentage of the 41 patients with the E3/4 and E4/4 genotypes than of the 38 patients with the E2/3 and E2/2 genotypes had a history of bone fractures at the time of recruitment (44% versus 16%, P < 0.005). During the 4 years following recruitment, more of the...

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