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Observational Study
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Lower serum uric acid level predicts mortality in dialysis patients Eunjin Bae (MD)a, Hyun-Jeong Cho (MD)b, Nara Shin (MD)c, Sun Moon Kim (MD, PhD)d, Seung Hee Yang (PhD)e, Dong Ki Kim (MD, PhD)b, Yong-Lim Kim (MD, PhD)f, Shin-Wook Kang (MD, PhD)g, ∗ Chul Woo Yang (MD, PhD)h, Nam Ho Kim (MD, PhD)i, Yon Su Kim (MD, PhD)b,e, Hajeong Lee (MD)b,e, Abstract We evaluated the impact of serum uric acid (SUA) on mortality in patients with chronic dialysis. A total of 4132 adult patients on dialysis were enrolled prospectively between August 2008 and September 2014. Among them, we included 1738 patients who maintained dialysis for at least 3 months and had available SUA in the database. We categorized the time averaged-SUA (TA-SUA) into 5 groups:
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Observational Study
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Lower serum uric acid level predicts mortality in dialysis patients Eunjin Bae (MD)a, Hyun-Jeong Cho (MD)b, Nara Shin (MD)c, Sun Moon Kim (MD, PhD)d, Seung Hee Yang (PhD)e, Dong Ki Kim (MD, PhD)b, Yong-Lim Kim (MD, PhD)f, Shin-Wook Kang (MD, PhD)g, ∗ Chul Woo Yang (MD, PhD)h, Nam Ho Kim (MD, PhD)i, Yon Su Kim (MD, PhD)b,e, Hajeong Lee (MD)b,e, Abstract We evaluated the impact of serum uric acid (SUA) on mortality in patients with chronic dialysis. A total of 4132 adult patients on dialysis were enrolled prospectively between August 2008 and September 2014. Among them, we included 1738 patients who maintained dialysis for at least 3 months and had available SUA in the database. We categorized the time averaged-SUA (TA-SUA) into 5 groups:
