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 [...]
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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 [...]