Cockroft-Gault or abbreviated-MDRD equations - Which 'weighs' more in cardiovascular risk? [8]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2342-2343

  Rodrigo, Pilar ^a   Andrés, María Rosa ^b  

^a GERENCIA REGIONAL DE SALUD DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN   (Spain)

^b Centro de Salud Pintor Oliva   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; OBESITY; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33748046141     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl177     Document Type: Letter

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