Plasma High-Density Lipoprotein Concentrations in Chronic-Hemodialysis and Renal-Transplant Patients

Abstract

Since epidemiologic studies show that the risk of clinically evident atherosclerosis correlates negatively with concentrations of high-density lipoprotein, we sought to determine whether patients on chronic hemodialysis or recipients of renal transplants had alterations in this lipoprotein similar to those described in other disorders associated with accelerated forms of atherosclerosis.