Carotid plaque thickness is increased in chronic kidney disease and associated with carotid and coronary calcification.
Sasha S BjergfeltIda Maria Hjelm SørensenHenrik Øder HjortkjærNino Emmanuel LandlerEllen L F BallegaardTor Biering-SørensenKlaus Fuglsang KofoedTheis LangeBo Feldt-RasmussenHenrik SillesenChristina ChristoffersenSusanne BroPublished in: PloS one (2021)
This is the first study showing that cPTmax is increased in patients with chronic kidney disease stage 3 compared to controls and closely associated with prevalent cardiovascular disease and severity of calcification in both the carotid and coronary arteries.