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Publication Information

PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2017
Affiliation
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA.; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.; Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Section on Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Authors
Lo Joan C, Beck Gerald J, Kaysen George A, Chan Christopher T, Kliger Alan S, Rocco Michael V, Chertow Glenn M

Abstract

End-stage renal disease is associated with elevations in circulating prolactin concentrations, but the association of prolactin concentrations with intermediate health outcomes and the effects of hemodialysis frequency on changes in serum prolactin have not been examined.