Vascular calcification and increased mortality in dialysis patients: Is the baroreflex sensitivity the answer? [3]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2580-

  Zitt, Emanuel ^a   Rosenkranz, Alexander R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ARTERY DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAROREFLEX; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 27644560637     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi064     Document Type: Letter

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