Heritability of biochemical kidney markers and relation to survival in the elderly - Results from a Danish population-based twin study

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 349, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 143-150

  Bathum, Lise ^a,b   Fagnani, Corrado ^c   Christiansen, Lene ^a,b   Christensen, Kaare ^b  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Survlnc Hlth Prom Ital Natl I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Elderly; Heritability; Sodium; Survival; Twin study; Urate; Urea

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATININE; SODIUM; URATE; UREA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TWINS; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY MASS INDEX; CREATININE; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SODIUM; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS; URIC ACID;

EID: 4744358486     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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