Serum creatinine: Why lower may not be better

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2458-2459

  Lieu, Christopher ^a   Anderson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Creatinine; Intensive care unit; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CREATININE; GLYCINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CREATININE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS;

EID: 34748877264     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000284738.81354.FC     Document Type: Editorial

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