Influence of excess weight on mortality and hospital stay in 1346 hemodialysis patients

Kidney International

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1560-1567

  Fleischmann, Erwin ^a   Teal, Nancy ^a   Dudley, John ^a   May, Warren ^a   Bower, John D ^a   Salahudeen, Abdulla K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Body mass index; Dialysis; Malnutrition; Mortality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032949230     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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