Hormone Level May Reflect Mortality Risk Among Dialysis Patients
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that monitoring levels of a hormone called fibroblast growth factor 23 may provide information crucial to the treatment of patients with kidney failure.
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