Lipids in Health and Disease (Jun 2004)

Effect of Nandrolone Decanoate on Serum Lipoprotein (a) and its isoforms in hemodialysis patients

  • Rohbaninoubar Mohammad,
  • Argani Hassan,
  • Ghorbanihaghjo Amir,
  • Rashtchizadeh Nadereh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-3-16
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
p. 16

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Abstract Malnutrition, anemia and increased atherosclerosis are the main causes of mortality in hemodialysis patients. Therapies designed to improve the disorders might therefore be expected to improve outcome. The effects of Nandrolone Decanoate (ND), in 64 stable hemodialysis patients, were studied with respect to the following parameters: nutritional status, hematological indexes, lipid profiles including serum levels of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] in terms of differences in apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)]. The patients were treated with ND at dose of 100 mg/I.M./week for 4 months. After 2 and 4 months of treatment the elevations in the serum levels of albumin (p 30 mg/dl) than those of with low Lp(a) (

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