Why is there so much end-stage renal failure of undetermined cause in UK Indo-Asians?

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 187-193

  Ball, S ^a   Lloyd, J ^a   Cairns, T ^a   Cook, T ^a   Palmer, A ^a   Cattell, V ^a   Taube, D ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035054630     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/94.4.187     Document Type: Article

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