Complete blood count, glucose, lipids, liver enzymes, creatinine, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and other biochemical blood parameters were measured using standard laboratory procedures at the Central Laboratory of the Verona Integrated University Hospital, using relative reference techniques...
Tokyo, Japan) with CREA (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA) standardized to isotope dilution mass spectrometry. As recent study showed that the original Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation and Korean version equation had equivalent overall analytic performance, eGFR...
COVID-19 is a disease with a variable clinical course ranging from mild symptoms to critical illness, organ failure, and death. Prospective biomarkers may help to predict the severity of an individual’s clinical course and mortality risk. We analyzed asymmetric (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginin...
Patients with SAKI had a higher proportion of comorbid coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, liver disease and CKD but a lower proportion of comorbid hypertension. Patients in the SAKI subgroup had higher values for heart rate, respiratory rate, SOFA score, SAPS II ...
Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to ALT ratio (AST/ALT ratio) have been shown to be related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or insulin resistance, which was associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, it is unclear whether ALT and AST/ALT rati...
(I and J) Schematic diagram of accumulation of SM and role of SM-related enzymes in the kidney of Akita (I) and HFD-fed (J) mice. Fifteen randomly selected glomeruli per mouse were examined (n = 3/per group). Values are the means ± SE. ***P < 0.001 and **P < 0.01. 3.7. ...
enzymes were measured by enzymatic methods using a Hitachi 7600 automated chemistry analyser (Hitachi Co., Tokyo, Japan). The CRP concentrations were collected with a Roche/Hitachi 912 System (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA) using a latex-enhanced immunoturbidimetric method. Hypertension ...
Laboratory samples were drawn (1) at the time of study inclusion (baseline, prior to any oncological treatment for mCRC) and (2) approximately every 4–6 weeks, if feasible. Complete blood count, liver enzymes, creatinine level, plasma glucose, lipids, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs...