Body mass index and mortality in 'healthier' as compared with 'sicker' haemodialysis patients: Results from the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study (DOPPS)

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2386-2394

  Leavey, Sean F ^a,b   McCullough, Keith ^a   Hecking, Erwin ^c   Goodkin, David ^d   Port, Friedrich K ^b   Young, Eric W ^a,b  

^a Univ Ren Res and Educ Assoc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Augusta Kranken Anstalt   (Germany)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Haemodialysis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035214709     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.12.2386     Document Type: Article

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