Atherosclerosis in renal failure

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1061-1062

  Shoji, Tetsuo ^a   Nishizawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dyslipidemia; Hemodialysis; IMT

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DISEASE; B SCAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0348143335     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.1061     Document Type: Editorial

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