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Affiliation
Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 02115, USA. swaikar@partners.org
Authors
Brunelli SM, Curhan GC, Waikar SS
Studies
Citation
Waikar SS, Curhan GC, Brunelli SM. Mortality associated with low serum sodium concentration in maintenance hemodialysis. Am J Med 2011 Jan;124(1):77-84.Abstract
low serum sodium concentrations are associated with an increased risk of death in the general population, but causality is uncertain due to confounding from clinical conditions such as congestive heart failure and cirrhosis, in which hyponatremia results from elevated levels of arginine vasopressin.