Relationship Between Serum Myostatin and Endothelial Function in Non-Dialysis Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Ho-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Hsien Wang, Yu-Li Lin, Chiu-Huang Kuo, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Bang-Gee Hsu, Charat Thongprayoon · 2024
Read Relationship Between Serum Myostatin and Endothelial Function in Non-Dialysis Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Ho-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Hsien Wang, Yu-Li Lin, Chiu-Huang Kuo, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Bang-Gee Hsu, Charat Thongprayoon (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11726979.txt.
Description
Ho-Hsiang Chang and co-authors studied a muscle protein called myostatin and blood vessel function in kidney disease in 2024. Myostatin slows muscle growth and has been linked to obesity, insulin problems, and heart disease. Its link to vessel lining health in people with chronic kidney disease was not clear.
The team studied 136 patients with stage three to five disease who were not on dialysis. Fasting blood tests measured the protein, and a finger heat test gave a score for vessel response. About one in five patients scored in the poor range, and near half scored in the middle range. Readers get a focused look at whether a muscle signal tracks vessel health in kidney patients. That link, if firm, could help flag heart risk in this group.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ho-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Hsien Wang, Yu-Li Lin, Chiu-Huang Kuo, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Bang-Gee Hsu, Charat Thongprayoon |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |