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Fig. 1 | BMC Nephrology

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From: Changes in 3-month mineral and bone disorder patterns were associated with all-cause mortality in prevalent hemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism

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Study design of the MBD-5D study.The study has a whole cohort (solid circle) of all patients enrolled and a subcohort (dotted circle) of randomly selected 40% of the whole cohort. From 86 facilities, all 8,229 dialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism were registered and 3,276 patients were selected into the subcohort. In total, 1,226 all-cause deaths and 462 deaths due to cardiovascular disease were reported. CV, cardiovascular

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