Crippling of inflammatory markers as predictors of death by dichotomization and multicollinearity [4]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2990-2991

  Bakker, Stephan J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEATH; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33749599742     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl233     Document Type: Letter

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