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Affiliation
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA. Chi-yuan.Hsu@ucsf.edu.
Authors
Bansal N, Go AS, Hsu CY, Zhang X
Studies
Citation
Zhang X, Bansal N, Go AS, Hsu CY. Gastrointestinal symptoms, inflammation and hypoalbuminemia in chronic kidney disease patients: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrol 2015 Dec 11;16:211.Abstract
Few studies have focused on investigating hypoalbuminemia in patients during earlier stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In particular, little is known about the role of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Our goal in this paper is to study how GI symptoms relate to serum albumin levels in CKD, especially in the context of and compared with inflammation.