Presence of Abdominal Aortic Calcification Is Significantly Associated With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 417-425

  Okuno, Senji ^a   Ishimura, Eiji ^b   Kitatani, Kayoko ^a   Fujino, Yoko ^a   Kohno, Kaori ^a   Maeno, Yoshifumi ^a   Maekawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamakawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Imanishi, Yasuo ^b   Inaba, Masaaki ^b   Nishizawa, Yoshiki ^b  

^a Shirasagi Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; all cause mortality; calcification; cardiovascular mortality; hemodialysis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 33847279845     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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