Chronic kidney disease perspectives in Japan and the importance of urinalysis screening

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Yamagata, Kunihiro ^a   Iseki, Kunitoshi ^b   Nitta, Kousaku ^c   Imai, Hirokazu ^d   Iino, Yasuhiko ^e   Matsuo, Seiichi ^f   Makino, Hirofumi ^g   Hishida, Akira ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CKD; CVD; Proteinuria; Racial difference; Screening

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEINURIA; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SCREENING; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 37549040986     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-007-0010-9     Document Type: Review

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