Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2016

…Intestinal metabolites, chronic kidney disease and renal transplantation: enigma variations?…

…Up to now, studies on oral health in CKD patients have been small, have used non-standardized methods to evaluate oral disease and have provided heterogeneous results…

…In Danish patients on dialysis and in those with a renal transplant, the risk of fractures is 3-fold and 2-fold higher, respectively, than in coeval subjects in the general population…

…So, do we now need to set up a randomised clinical trial to determine whether correcting chronic hyponatraemia will result in a reduction in the number of hip fractures?…

…As daily smoking declines in the United States, intermittent smoking may be increasing, making the assessment of intermittent smoking increasingly important when examining the association of smoking and CKD development and outcomes…