Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global ...

Bananas and avocados — foods that are rich in potassium — may help protect against pathogenic vascular calcification, also known as hardening of the arteries. University of Alabama at Birmingham ...

Possible benefit in using magnesium carbonate as a phosphate binder in hemodialysis patients. ORLANDO—A small pilot study suggests that magnesium may prevent or delay progression of vascular ...

Potent, selective ABCC6-targeting positive functional modulator (PFM) improved multiple markers of renal function in animal models of chronic kidney disease (CKD) PFM improved inorganic pyrophosphate ...

Logistic regression is the most cost-effective model for medial vascular calcification classification, with a mean ICER of $278 using five low-cost features. Despite similar diagnostic accuracy, ...

Promising therapies still need to be further evaluated in clinical trials. The first systematic review of trials of possible therapies to slow vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...

Four presentations at oral and ePoster sessions focus on the effect of SNF472 in vascular calcification disorders Palma, Spain and San Diego, USA, October 22, 2020 – Sanifit, a clinical-stage ...