Arterial stiffness and wave reflections in renal transplant recipients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3021-3027

  Verbeke, Francis ^a   Van Biesen, Wim ^a   Peeters, Patrick ^a   Van Bortel, Luc M ^b   Vanholder, Raymond C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Cardiovascular risk; Inflammation; Kidney function; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EDETATE CHROMIUM CR 51;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36048950292     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm379     Document Type: Article

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