Dietary Acid Load is Associated With Serum Bicarbonate but not Insulin Sensitivity in Chronic Kidney Disease

Journal of Renal Nutrition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 93-102

  Ikizler, Halil O ^a,b   Zelnick, Leila ^b   Ruzinski, John ^b   Curtin, Laura ^b   Utzschneider, Kristina M ^c   Kestenbaum, Bryan ^b   Himmelfarb, Jonathan ^b   de Boer, Ian H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACIDOSIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ACIDOSIS; AGED; BICARBONATES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

EID: 84958104184     PISSN: 10512276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jrn.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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