Serum Potassium Levels and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
CONCLUSIONS: The long interdialytic interval was associated with increased likelihood of hyperkalemia. Hyperkalemia was associated with all-cause mortality beginning at serum potassium ≥5.7 mEq/l; mortality risk estimates increased ordinally through ≥6.0 mEq/l, suggesting a threshold at which serum potassium becomes substantially more dangerous.
PMID: 27592170 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Yusuf AA, Hu Y, Singh B, Menoyo JA, Wetmore JB Tags: Am J Nephrol Source Type: research
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