Low Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome in Patients with Advanced Chronic Renal Failure in the Indian Population: A Case Controlled Study

Renal Failure

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-72

  Bhowmik, Dipankar ^a   Bhatia, Manvir ^a   Tiwari, Sumeet ^a   Mahajan, Sandeep ^a   Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Agarwal, Sanjay K ^a   Dash, Suresh C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Restless legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; UREMIA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INDIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1842429506     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JDI-120028557     Document Type: Article

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