Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and risk of death in chronic dialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1956-1960

  Iseki, Kunitoshi ^a   Tozawa, Masahiko ^a   Yoshi, Shinichiro ^b   Fukiyama, Koshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b National Okinawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032784499     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.8.1956     Document Type: Article

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