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Research reports on dialysis from Nihon University, Medical Department provide new insights

Published in Blood Weekly, May 1st, 2008

According to recent research from Tokyo, Japan, "Seasonal variations in laboratory test results have been pointed out in dialysis patients. Although the mechanism for this phenomenon is not clear, this could result in changes in dialysis and medication prescriptions."

"We investigated the effect of the circannual rhythm on laboratory test parameters in chronic haemodialysis patients. Data of 38 laboratory test parameters were collected every month and analyzed for 150 stable haemodialysis patients, with non-linear sine wave regression and paired t test between data of peak and trough months. Serum urea nitrogen, unsaturated iron binding capacity, lactate dehydrogenase,...

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