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Poster Presentations

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Nutritional Intervention for Management of Osteodystrophy inHemodialysis Patients: A Developing Country Model (Lebanon) Mirey Karavetian, Beirut, Lebanon - Sana Ghaddar, San Francisco, California - Hafez Elzein, Beirut, Lebanon	How Interdisciplinary Teams Can Help Black Hemodialysis Patients Get Kidney Transplants Teri Browne, University of South Carolina College of Social Work, Columbia, SC

Body Composition and All-Cause Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients Cindy Huang1, Hocine Tighiouart¹, Srinivasan Beddhu², Alfred Cheung², Dwyer, Johanna¹, Garabed Eknoyan³, Gerald Beck⁴, Andrew Levey1,Mark Sarnak1. ¹ Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; ² Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ⁴Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH	Deleting TGF-β Receptor in Renal Tubular Cells Stimulates Collagen Production by Fibroblasts Leslie Gewin, Ray Harris, Hal Moses, Ambra Pozzi, Roy Zent, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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Supplementation with Over-The-Counter Cholecalciferol Increases Serum 25 Hydroxy Vitamin D Levels in Hemodialysis Subjects Clement, Louise; Bollman, Lacey; Jackson, Traci; Shen, Chwan-Li; Spallholz, Julian; and Boylan, Mallory. South Plains Kidney Disease Center; Texas Tech University and TTU Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX.