Positive Associations between Adipocyte Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Level and Central Arterial Stiffness in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.

Background: Adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein (A-FABP) plays essential roles in lipolysis, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between serum A-FABP levels and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.

Methods: This study obtained fasting blood samples from 76 PD patients.

Osteocalcin and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity in patients on peritoneal dialysis.

Objective: Vascular calcification is a cardiovascular risk factor in dialysis patients. Vascular calcification involves a complex process of biomineralization resembling osteogenesis, which leads to arterial stiffness. Osteocalcin is the most abundant noncollagenous protein in the bone matrix.

Relationship between resistin and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

Aims: Determine the relationship of serum resistin level with outcome in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients.

Materials And Methods: This 49-month prospective study enrolled 101 HD patients and examined their clinical and demographic characteristics.

Results: 23 of the 87 patients in the cohort died.