International Society of Nephrology. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Abstract
Like blood pressure and cholesterol, hoocysteine shows a paradoxical inverse relationship with cardiovascular complications in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A paper by Ducloux et al. in this issue adds perhaps decisive evidence on malnutrition-hypoalbuminemia as the main factor explaining the counterintuitive association between homocysteine and clinical outcome reported in previous studies