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From: Association of higher arterial ketone body ratio (acetoacetate/β-hydroxybutyrate) with relevant nutritional marker in hemodialysis patients

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Changes in arterial AcAc, β-HB, and AcAc/β-HB ratio during 4-h hemodialysis session in all patients, as well as the non-DM, and T2DM groups. All HD patients, as well as after dividing into with or without T2DM, exhibited significant increases in arterial levels of AcAc and β-HB during a single 4-h HD session. Arterial AcAc/β-HB ratio was significantly reduced in all (c) and non-DM (f) patients, but not in the T2DM group (i). As a result, though the arterial AcAc/β-HB ratio was significantly higher in non-DM than T2DM HD patients before the HD session (p = 0.0134), it was not significantly different between those groups after the HD session (p = 0.1078)

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