Is mortality risk in hemodialysis patients with increased arterial stiffness reduced by attainment of classical clinical performance measures?
S1 predicted mortality in hemodialysis patients. However, better attainment of classical clinical performance measures significantly improved long-term outcome in hemodialysis patients despite their pronounced increase in arterial stiffness.
H. pylori infection of gastric epithelial cells leads to a decrease in DNA MMR proteins that is at least in part related to an H. pylori-induced decrease in messenger RNA levels of repair genes. These data suggest that H. pylori infection might lead to a deficiency of DNA MMR in gastric epithelial cells that may increase the risk of mutation accumulation in gastric mucosa cells and the risk of gastric cancer during chronic H. pylori infection.