Progression of vascular calcification increases QT interval in haemodialysis patients [14]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3609-3610

  Di Iorio, Biagio Raffaele ^a   D'Avanzo, Ernesto ^b   Piscopo, Carmine ^c   Grimaldi, Pellegrino ^c   Cucciniello, Emanuele ^a   Cillo, Nicola ^a   Bellizzi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UO di Nefrologia e Dialisi   (Italy)

^b UO Diagnostica per Immagini   (Italy)

^c UO Medicina   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; SEVELAMER;

AGE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; LETTER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT PROLONGATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UREMIA;

CALCINOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33751402126     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl417     Document Type: Letter

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