A familial risk of chronic renal failure among blacks on dialysis?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 1189-1196

  Ferguson, Rollington ^a   Grim, Clarence E ^a   Opgenorth, Terry J ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Diabetes; End stage renal disease; Epidemiology; Familial risk; Hypertension; Race

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024238390     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(88)90023-6     Document Type: Article

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