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Evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness and ultrafast pulse wave velocity for cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients: impact of diabetes.
Key takeaways
Researchers followed 115 people on regular dialysis for 39 months, a little over three years. They used ultrasound to measure how stiff the arteries were and how thick the neck artery wall had become, then counted heart problems and deaths. Dialysis patients had clearly worse artery measurements than people without kidney failure, and the team tested whether those scans predict who gets sick. This is an observational study, so it shows a link between stiff arteries and later heart trouble, not proof that one causes the other.
Who did this work
Zhu X (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Zheng L (Department of Ultrasound, Huashan Hospital, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Zhang W (Department of Ultrasound, Huashan Hospital, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Liang X (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Ren Y (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Gu Q (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Zhang Y (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · You L (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Xue J (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Hao C (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.) · Wu Y (Department of Nephrology, Huashan Hospital, Jingan Branch, Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.)
Source
Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-03
https://doi.org/10.1080/0886022x.2026.2723512