Nephrology
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To investigate the associations of different risk factors with carotid artery intima-media thickness (C-IMT) in non-diabetic haemodialysis (HD) patients who had no clinical evidence of atherosclerosis. ⋯ Besides well-known cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, cTnI and beta2M were related with C-IMT in that they may have important roles in early-onset atherosclerosis in this high-risk population.
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Body weight (BW) might be related to total body water, and the difference between a patient's actual BW and ideal BW (IBW) might be the volume marker. However, there has been no information about the association between IBW and dry weight (DW) in haemodialysis (HD) patients. ⋯ BW had a linear relationship with Ht(2) and might be predictable by the WHO class-specific equation using Ht(2). These equations might be useful as a crude indicator of DW in HD patients.