Dr. Joachim Ix, MD

• Nephrology

• Internal Medicine

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• University Ca Sf School Of Med

  Residency Hospital

• University Of Chicago Hospital / Roosevelt University

  Medical School, 2000

• FGF23, Frailty, and Falls in SPRINT FGF23, Frailty, and Falls, 2020-12-01

• Low Serum Bicarbonate and Kidney Function Decline: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2014-06-18

• Urine Creatinine Concentration and Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2021-08-07

• Vitamin K dependent protein activity and incident ischemic cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2016-03-31

• Urinary Biomarkers of Kidney Tubule Health and Mortality in Persons with CKD and Diabetes Mellitus, 2023-08-03

• Relationship of Coronary Artery Calcium on Standard Chest Computed Tomography Scans with Mortality, 2016-01-06

• Sex Hormones and Serum Phosphorus in Older Men: The Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOs) Study, 2010-06-09

• Associations of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Calcified Atherosclerosis with Aorto-Iliac Bifurcation Position: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2013-12-26

• Renal Clearance of FGF23 and its Fragments in Humans, 2022-04-25

• Relationship of dietary phosphate intake with risk of end stage renal disease and mortality in chronic kidney disease stage 3-5: A Modification of Diet in Renal Disease study, 2016-01-04

• Biomarkers of Kidney Tubule Disease and Risk of End-Stage Kidney Disease in Persons With Diabetes and CKD, 2022-04-05

• Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and insulin resistance in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2013-08-27

• Association Between More Intensive vs Less Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering and Risk of Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3 to 5 A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, 2017-10-01

• The Promise of Tubule Biomarkers in Kidney Disease: A Review, 2021-05-27

• THE ASSOCIATION OF FETUIN-A WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY IN OLDER COMMUNITY-DWELLING ADULTS: THE RANCHO BERNARDO STUDY, 2012-05-08

• Association of Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs with Kidney Health in Ambulatory Older Adults, 2020-12-10

• Correlates ofT50and Relationships with Bone Mineral Density in Community-Living Older Men: The Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study, 2019-03-18

• Relationships Between Serum and Urine Phosphorus with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study, 2012-12-20

• Nicotinamide and phosphate homeostasis in chronic kidney disease, 2018-06-28

• Metabolic Clusters and Outcomes in Older Adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study, 2017-10-24

• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23, Left Ventricular Mass, and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, 2013-09-13

• HIV Infection, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, and Urine a1-Microglobulin: A Cross-sectional Analysis in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 2016-06-08

• Ankle Brachial Index, Toe Brachial Index, and Cardiovascular Mortality in Participants With and Without Diabetes Mellitus, 2014-03-21

• Estimated GFR Variability and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial), 2020-12-14

• Fetuin-A, glycemic status, and risk of cardiovascular disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2016-03-22

• Influence of Urine Creatinine Concentrations on the Relation of Albumin-Creatinine Ratio With Cardiovascular Disease Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2013-07-02

• Relation of Kidney Function and Albuminuria with Atrial Fibrillation (From the Heart and Soul Study), 2009-12-01

• Fibrosis-Related Biomarkers and Large and Small Vessel Disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2015-02-16

• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23: A Biomarker of Kidney Function Decline, 2018-04-05

• Plasma Levels of Advanced Glycation Endproducts and Risk of Cardiovascular Events: Findings From 2 Prospective Cohorts, 2022-07-29

• Associations Between Coronary Calcification on Chest Radiographs and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients, 2012-08-09

• Family History of Peripheral Artery Disease is associated with Prevalence and Severity of Peripheral Artery Disease: The San Diego Population Study (SDPS), 2011-09-20

• Extremes of an Aromatase Index Predict Increased 25-year Risk of Cardiovascular Mortality in Older Women, 2011-11-15

• Cumulative tenofovir disoproxil fumarate exposure is associated with biomarkers of tubular injury and fibrosis in HIV-infected men, 2016-10-01

• Calcification of the splenic, iliac, and breast arteries and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, 2017-01-30

• The Associations of Fetuin-A with Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Community-Dwelling Persons: the Rancho Bernardo Study, 2011-11-29

• Association of Urine Biomarkers of Kidney Tubular Injury and Dysfunction With Frailty Index and Cognitive Function in Persons with CKD in SPRINT, 2021-02-27

• A High Ankle Brachial Index is Associated with Greater Left Ventricular Mass: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2010-01-26

• Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Kidney Tubule Injury in CKD: A Longitudinal Subgroup Analysis in SPRINT, 2018-10-02

• Fetuin-A and Incident Diabetes Mellitus in Older Persons: The Health Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, 2008-07-09

• Urinary Kidney Injury Molecule 1 (KIM-1) and Interleukin 18 (IL-18) as Risk Markers for Heart Failure in Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, 2014-03-18

• Fibrosis-Related Biomarkers and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2014-06-24

• Relation of Sex and Estrogen Therapy to Serum Fibroblast Growth Factor 23, Serum Phosphorus, and Urine Phosphorus: The Heart and Soul Study, 2011-08-19

• The downward shift of the aortic bifurcation, a possible marker for vascular aging, 2011-10-01

• Proteinuria and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping in Hypertensive Children and Adolescents, 2021-01-27

• Lipid accumulation product, visceral adiposity index and risk of chronic kidney disease, 2022-12-15

• Advanced glycation endproduct carboxymethyl-lysine and risk of incident peripheral artery disease in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2019-05-08

• Urinary Creatinine Excretion Rate and Mortality in Persons with Coronary Artery Disease: The Heart and Soul Study, 2010-03-08

• Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Kidney Tubule Injury: Findings From the ACCORD Trial Study Participants, 2018-10-02

• Comparison of Ordinal vs. Agatston Coronary Calcification Scoring for Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Community-Living Individuals, 2014-03-09

• Serum Bicarbonate Concentrations and Kidney Disease Progression in Community-Living Elders: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, 2014-06-18

• Association of Intraindividual Difference in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate by Creatinine vs Cystatin C and End-stage Kidney Disease and Mortality Difference in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate by Creatinine vs Cystatin C and End-stage Kidney Disease and Mortality, 2022-02-17

• Association of Serum Phosphorus with Left Ventricular Mass in Men and Women With Stable Cardiovascular Disease: Data from the Heart and Soul Study, 2010-06-26

• The Vitamin D Metabolite Ratio Is Independent of Vitamin D Binding Protein Concentration, 2021-01-30

• Associations between metabolic dysregulation and circulating biomarkers of fibrosis: the Cardiovascular Health Study, 2015-07-21

• Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Death, Heart Failure, and Cardiovascular Events in Community-Living Individuals: the Cardiovascular Health Study, 2012-06-13

• Urinary Biomarkers of Kidney Tubular Damage and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Elders, 2018-03-27

• Estimated Kidney Tubular Secretion and Kidney, Cardiovascular, and Mortality Outcomes in CKD: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, 2022-09-23

• Relation of Low Body Mass Index to Low Urinary Creatinine Excretion Rate in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease, 2011-04-27

• Plasma Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 and Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Older Adults, 2013-12-28

• Associations of Body Composition Measures and C2, a Marker for Small Artery Elasticity: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2015-09-16

• The Difference Between Cystatin C and Creatinine-Based Estimated GFR and Incident Frailty: An Analysis of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), 2020-07-16

• Association of Fetuin-A with Incident Diabetes in Community-Living Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2012-04-17

• Fetuin-A, a New Vascular Biomarker of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, 2014-01-07

• Null Association between Abdominal Muscle and Calcified Atherosclerosis in Community-Living Persons Without Clinical Cardiovascular Disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2013-08-01

• Potassium Measures and Their Associations with Glucose and Diabetes Risk: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2016-06-09

• FGF23 and Cause-specific Mortality in Community-living Individuals - the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study, 2020-11-10

• Estimated Albumin Excretion Rate Versus Urine Albumin-Creatinine Ratio for the Assessment of Albuminuria: A Diagnostic Test Study From the Prevention of Renal and Vascular Endstage Disease (PREVEND) Study, 2013-12-21

• Relation of Serum Phosphorus Levels to Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey), 2010-08-15

• Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Incident Peripheral Artery Disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2013-11-04

• Original Article: Tubular biomarkers and chronic kidney disease progression in SPRINT participants, 2020-09-09

• Urine Fibrosis Markers and Risk of Allograft Failure in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Case-Cohort Ancillary Study of the FAVORIT Trial, 2016-12-23

• Fetuin-A and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomization analysis and a pooled analysis ofAHSGgenetic variants in 7 prospective studies, 2015-09-05

• Variation in Sodium Intake and Intra-Individual Change in Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease, 2017-08-31

• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Blood Pressure in Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study, 2020-05-18

• The SPRINT trial suggests that markers of tubule cell function in the urine associate with risk of subsequent acute kidney injury while injury markers elevate after the injury, 2019-05-07

• Association between kidney function and telomere length: the Heart and Soul Study, 2012-10-25

• Kidney Damage Biomarkers and Incident CKD During Blood Pressure Reduction: A Case-Control Study within SPRINT, 2018-10-23

• Sodium and Health Outcomes: Ascertaining Valid Estimates in Research Studies, 2021-05-11

• Associations of urine biomarkers with kidney function decline in HIV-infected and uninfected men, 2019-09-25

• Relationship of Femoral Artery Ultrasound Measures of Atherosclerosis with Chronic Kidney Disease, 2017-12-22

• Association of Chronic Kidney Disease with the Spectrum of Ankle Brachial Index: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2009-09-22

• Markers of Mineral Metabolism Are Not Associated With Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Community-Living Elderly Persons: The Health Aging and Body Composition Study, 2011-03-24

• HIGHER LEPTIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTENSION: THE MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS, 2013-03-28

• Biomarkers of Kidney Tubule Health, CKD Progression, and Acute Kidney Injury in SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) Participants, 2021-04-20

• Effect of Lanthanum Carbonate on Blood Pressure in CKD, 2021-01-09

• The Association of Bone Density and Calcified Atherosclerosis is Stronger in Women Without Dyslipidemia: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2014-06-05

• Estimated GFR Accuracy When Cystatin C- and Creatinine-Based Estimates Are Discrepant in Older Adults, 2023-03-13

• Plasma NGAL is Independently Associated with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Rancho Bernardo Study, 2012-03-20

• Fibroblast growth factor 23 and cognitive impairment: The health, aging, and body composition study, 2020-12-11

• Association of HIV infection with biomarkers of kidney injury and fibrosis in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 2017-01-05

• Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Frailty in Elderly Community-Dwelling Individuals: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 2017-04-30

• Greater Volume But Not Higher Density of Abdominal Aortic Calcium Is Associated With Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2017-01-25

• Test Characteristics of the Ankle Brachial Index and Ankle Brachial Difference for Medial Arterial Calcification on X-ray in Type 1 Diabetes, 2012-05-05

• Associations of Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Kidney Tubular Injury With Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Cohort Study, 2021-11-06

• Development and Validation of Novel Free Vitamin D Equations: The Health Aging and Body Composition Study Cheng et al., 2023-06-13

• Urine Uromodulin is not Associated with Blood Pressure in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Cohort, 2022-08-03

• Biphasic Dynamics of Inflammatory Markers Following Hemodialysis Initiation: Results From the International MONitoring Dialysis Outcome Initiative, 2022-11-16

• Urinary biomarkers of tubular damage are associated with mortality but not cardiovascular risk among SPRINT participants with chronic kidney disease, 2019-04-02

• A Simple Equation to Estimate Urinary Flow Rate Using Urine Creatinine, 2020-03-09

• Urine Calcium Excretion, Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Outpatients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease (From the Heart and Soul Study), 2012-09-10

• Hemodialysis Access Usage Patterns in the Incident Dialysis Year and Associated Catheter-Related Complications, 2012-11-16

• Relation Between Calcified Atherosclerosis in the Renal Arteries and Kidney Function (From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), 2017-07-24

• Associations of Socioeconomic Status and Processed Food Intake with Serum Phosphorus in Community-Living Adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), 2012-01-03