Overview: Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Minor Renal Dysfunction: An Emerging Issue with Far-Reaching Consequences

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 513-516

  Ritz, Eberhard ^a   McClellan, William M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Georgia Medical Care Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ATHEROGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY METABOLISM; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROALBUMINURIA; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 1542378917     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ASN.0000115398.92270.30     Document Type: Editorial

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