Title : Cardiac calcifications: Fetuin-A and other risk factors in hemodialysis patients.

Pub. Date : 2006 Mar-Apr

PMID : 16557100






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1 Serum calcium and treatment with calcitriol emerged as predictive variables of coronary score.Fetuin-A could be involved in the process of calcification both in the case of markedly low serum levels, due to decreased prevention of calcium phosphate precipitation, and also as a marker of inflammation, a well-known risk factor of atherogenesis. calcium phosphate alpha 2-HS glycoprotein Homo sapiens