Total body nitrogen predicts long-term mortality in haemodialysis patients - A single-centre experience

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1731-1736

  Arora, Pradeep ^a   G Strauss, Boyd J ^a   Borovnicar, Danny ^a   Stroud, Dan ^a   Atkins, Robert C ^a   Kerr, Peter G ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis; Mortality; Nutrition; Total body nitrogen

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PROTEINS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0031748482     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.7.1731     Document Type: Article

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