U-shaped relationship between serum phosphate and cardiovascular risk: A retrospective cohort study.

High serum phosphate is associated with coronary artery disease in patients with normal and impaired renal function. We asked: Does the serum phosphate range provide prediction of primary cardiac events? We extracted coded primary care data for over 100,000 patients from a database of 135 primary me...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Hayward, Andrew McGovern, Simon de Lusignan, Nicholas Cole, William Hinton, Simon Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5695582?pdf=render