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Burden of diagnosed and undetected hyperkalemia in Spain: Clinical characteristics, management, healthcare resource utilization, and costs

Paper C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

High potassium in the blood is a common and dangerous problem in kidney disease. This study looked at people in Spain to count how many cases doctors caught, how many went undetected, how they were treated, and what that cost the health system. It is observational, so it shows a link between high potassium and heavier care and costs, not proof that one causes the other. The record we received had no abstract, so the number of patients and the actual costs are not available here.

Who did this work

José Luis Górriz (Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia) · Roberto Alcázar (Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor) · Patricia de Sequera (Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor) · Enrique Morales (Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre) · Miquel Blasco (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona) · Marco Montomoli (Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia) · Alberto Ortíz (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-29
https://doi.org/10.1093/joneph/aajag234