Fasting serum ghrelin level is associated with metabolic syndrome in pieritoneal dialysis patients

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 28, Issue SUPP. 3, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Chung Jen ^a   Subeq, Yi Maun ^a   Wang, Chih Hsien ^b   Lee, Ru Ping ^a   Fang, Te Chao ^a,b   Hsu, Bang Gee ^a,b  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GHRELIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; GHRELIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 48749118000     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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