Carotid Plaques and Their Predictive Value for Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients Considering Renal Transplantation: A Decade Follow-Up

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 888-897

  Schwaiger, Johannes P ^a,b,c,d,e   Lamina, Claudia ^a,b,c,d,e   Neyer, Ulrich ^a,b,c,d,e   König, Paul ^a,b,c,d,e   Kathrein, Hermann ^a,b,c,d,e   Sturm, Wolfgang ^a,b,c,d,e   Lhotta, Karl ^a,b,c,d,e   Gröchenig, Ernst ^a,b,c,d,e   Dieplinger, Hans ^a,b,c,d,e   Kronenberg, Florian ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Hospital Feldkirch   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; Carotid atherosclerosis; censoring; end stage renal disease (ESRD); lipoprotein(a); time dependent covariate; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646486113     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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