Hyperkalemia excursions and risk of mortality and hospitalizations in hemodialysis patients: results from DOPPS-Italy

Affiliations

• ¹ U.O.S. Terapia Conservativa della Malattia Renale Cronica, U.O.C. Nefrologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy. pietromanuel.ferraro@unicatt.it.
• ² Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. pietromanuel.ferraro@unicatt.it.
• ³ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, "Magna Graecia" University, Catanzaro, Italy.
• ⁴ Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, Foggia, Italy.
• ⁵ Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Hospital of Trento, Trento, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.
• ⁷ SC Nefrologia e Dialisi, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milano, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Nephrology, Alessandro Manzoni Hospital, Lecco, Italy.
• ⁹ Division of Nephrology, General Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
• ¹⁰ U.O.C. Nefrologia Dialisi e Trapianto, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
• ¹¹ Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.