Association of Pre‐ESRD Serum Calcium With Post‐ESRD Mortality Among Incident ESRD Patients: A Cohort Study

Albumin‐corrected serum calcium (cSCa) decline at late stages of chronic kidney disease and rise after dialysis initiation. Although hypercalcemia is associated with higher mortality in end‐stage renal disease (ESRD), there are scarce data on the impact of pre‐ESRD cSCa on post‐ESRD mortality. Therefore, we used a large national cohort of 21,826 US veterans who transitioned to dialysis in all US Department of Veterans Affairs health care...