Baseline variables associated with early death and extended survival on dialysis

Renal Failure

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 581-587

  De Lima, José Jayme Galvão ^a,b   Da Fonseca, João Américo ^a   Godoy, Aníbal Diaz ^a  

^a Hosp S Cristóvão   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dialysis; End stage renal disease; Mortality rates

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; UREA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031851481     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08860229809045150     Document Type: Article

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