The Effect of Increasing Dialysis Dose in Overweight Hemodialysis Patients on Quality of Life: A 6-Week Randomized Crossover Trial

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 796-803

  Wang, Wenjie ^a   Tonelli, Marcello ^b   Hemmelgarn, Brenda ^a   Gao, Song ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey A ^b   Taub, Ken ^a   Manns, Braden ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2 dialyzers in parallel; dialysis adequacy; Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2); Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL SF); Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; UREMIA;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 43049092307     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.12.031     Document Type: Article

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