Could High Be Better Than Low? Targeting Phosphate in Trials
Phosphate is bad, right? As kidney function declines, phosphate excretion goes down. Serum phosphate levels rise, causing parathyroid hormone (PTH) to increase and bring [...]
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Highlights from the June 2021 Issue
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic [...]
SCM14: Let’s Bind With Velphoro
Dr. Stuart Sprague (SS) from the North Shore University Health System and University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine discusses his abstract for the National Kidney [...]
Hypertension, Proteinuria, and Phosphate: A Bad Combination!
Invited commentary by Dr. Edgar Lerma In recent years, the epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its association with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Phosphate Metabolism
Our understanding of phosphate regulation is changing as newer mediators such as fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) emerge. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and phosphate balance [...]
Sex and Estrogen Therapy and Their Influence on FGF-23 and Phosphate Levels
It is known that estrogen can mitigate menopause-associated urine phosphate retention. A recent cross-sectional study of ambulatory individuals with prevalent cardiovascular [...]