São Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
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Alternative hemodialysis schedules have been proposed to improve the quality of the dialysis. Nonetheless, their influence upon mineral and bone disorders is unknown. ⋯ Patients treated using daily hemodialysis had better control of serum phosphorus and perhaps a lower risk of metastatic calcifications. Daily hemodialysis also seemed to be beneficial to low turnover bone disease and bone aluminum deposition.