Albuminuria as a marker of arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease patients
Rigas G Kalaitzidis, Despina P Karasavvidou, Athina Tatsioni, Kosmas Pappas, Giorgos Katatsis, Angelos Liontos, Moses S Elisaf
Rigas G Kalaitzidis, Despina P Karasavvidou, Kosmas Pappas, Giorgos Katatsis, Angelos Liontos, Moses S Elisaf, Outpatient Renal and Hypertension Clinic, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
Athina Tatsioni, Moses S Elisaf, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
Author contributions: Kalaitzidis RG and Elisaf MS designed research; Karasavvidou DP, Pappas K, Katatsis G and Liontos A performed research; Tatsioni A analyzed data; Elisaf MS and Kalaitzidis RG wrote the paper.
Ethics approval statement: Our hospital Ethics Committee approved this study protocol with a registration identification number (AΔΑΒΛΓΦ46906Η-ΛΟΛ).
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at Moses Elisaf [melisaf54@gmail.com, egepi@cc.uoi.gr]. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing even though are anonymized and the risk of identification is low.
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Correspondence to: Moses S Elisaf, MD, FASA, FRSH, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Epirus, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. egepi@cc.uoi.gr
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Received: November 4, 2014
Peer-review started: November 9, 2014
First decision: November 27, 2014
Revised: December 22, 2014
Accepted: April 8, 2015
Article in press: April 9, 2015
Published online: July 6, 2015
