Hyponatremia: incidence, risk factors, and consequences in the elderly in a home-based primary care program.

CONCLUSIONS: Hyponatremia is common in home-bound elderly patients and its persistence independently contributes to falls, fractures, and hospitalization but not mortality. Our study highlights a new association of hyponatremia with frailty and underscores the need to study time-dependent association of hyponatremia with epidemiological outcomes. PMID: 26042411 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Nephrology - June 3, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Ganguli A, Mascarenhas RC, Jamshed N, Tefera E, Veis JH Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research