Millat Sultan, Shah Jehan.
Relationship of Anti-oxidants (Vit. E & C) with Cardiac Enzymes in ESRD Patients of Shaikh Zayed Hospital on Regular Hemodialysis.
Proceeding Shaikh Zayed Postgrad Med Inst Jan ;14(1):23-8.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients receiving chronic hemodialysis therapy. The present study was planned and carried out to see the level of vitamin C and vitamin E, cardiac profile in ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) patients on regular hemodialysis, and also the immediate effect of dialysis on vitamin level. Serum was tested from 50 ESRD patients on hemodialysis and 15 healthy control subjects matched for age and sex. Forty one patients and 12 controls were in the age range of more than 30 years. Fall of vitamin C was also significant in patient with raised cardiac enzymes as compared with the patients with normal cardiac enzymes. However ESRD patients on haemodialysis with vitamin E level of less than 6 mg/l showed significantly raised cardiac enzymes. The level of AST and LDH was significantly raised in ESRD patients as compared to control groups.

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