Coronary and aortic calcifications in patients new to dialysis

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-272

  Spiegel, David M ^a   Raggi, Paolo ^b   Mehta, Ravindra ^c   Lindberg, Jill S ^d   Chonchol, Michel ^a   Ehrlich, James ^e   James, George ^b   Chertow, Glenn M ^f   Block, Geoffrey A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e Colorado Heart Imaging ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Denver Nephrology   (United States)

Author keywords

EBCT; ESRD; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PULSE PRESSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 22644433390     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1492-7535.2004.01104.x     Document Type: Article

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