BACKGROUND: Several classical risk factors are at the base of vascular calcifications in hemodialysis patients. Among these, according to a general opinion, also bone turnover plays a role, which, however, requires a better definition. In addition, it has been suggested that there is a relationship between primary osteoporosis and vascular calcifications. This bone biopsy-based study on a hemodialysis patient cohort is a contribution to the evaluation of these alleged relations. METHODS: This study has been carried out on a cohort of 32 patients on maintenance hemodialysis, who were subjected to transiliac bone biopsy for histomorphometric, histodynamic and bone aluminum deposit evaluation. The patients were also examined with multislice computerized tomography for quantitation of heart and coronary calcifications. RESULTS: The patients were affected by renal osteodystrophy with a wide range of bone formation rate values. A significant negative correlation was found between the rate of bone turnover and log-transformed cardiac calcification score (p < 0.003). There were also negative significant correlations between the cardiac and coronary calcification score log and trabecular number (p < 0.02 and p < 0.05, respectively), while the correlations were positive with trabecular separation (p < 0.03 and p < 0.05, respectively). However, multiregression analysis, forward method, selected only age, hemodialysis age and serum Ca as predictive variables of cardiac and coronary calcification score log, while the histomorphometric and histodynamic variables were excluded. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, in spite of the suggestive findings of the univariate statistical approach, a further multivariate analysis was indicative of a spurious association between calcification scores and both bone turnover and histomorphometric parameters of trabecular mass and connectivity. Bone turnover and trabecular mass do not appear to be prominently connected with the extent of cardiac and coronary calcifications in hemodialysis patients. 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel.
BACKGROUND: Several classical risk factors are at the base of vascular calcifications in hemodialysis patients. Among these, according to a general opinion, also bone turnover plays a role, which, however, requires a better definition. In addition, it has been suggested that there is a relationship between primary osteoporosis and vascular calcifications. This bone biopsy-based study on a hemodialysis patient cohort is a contribution to the evaluation of these alleged relations. METHODS: This study has been carried out on a cohort of 32 patients on maintenance hemodialysis, who were subjected to transiliac bone biopsy for histomorphometric, histodynamic and bone aluminum deposit evaluation. The patients were also examined with multislice computerized tomography for quantitation of heart and coronary calcifications. RESULTS: The patients were affected by renal osteodystrophy with a wide range of bone formation rate values. A significant negative correlation was found between the rate of bone turnover and log-transformed cardiac calcification score (p < 0.003). There were also negative significant correlations between the cardiac and coronary calcification score log and trabecular number (p < 0.02 and p < 0.05, respectively), while the correlations were positive with trabecular separation (p < 0.03 and p < 0.05, respectively). However, multiregression analysis, forward method, selected only age, hemodialysis age and serum Ca as predictive variables of cardiac and coronary calcification score log, while the histomorphometric and histodynamic variables were excluded. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, in spite of the suggestive findings of the univariate statistical approach, a further multivariate analysis was indicative of a spurious association between calcification scores and both bone turnover and histomorphometric parameters of trabecular mass and connectivity. Bone turnover and trabecular mass do not appear to be prominently connected with the extent of cardiac and coronary calcifications in hemodialysis patients. 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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