End-stage renal disease (ESRD) and its treatment in Japan

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2447-2450

  Tsukamoto, Yusuke ^a  

^a Shuwa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMI; CKD; Dialysis; End stage renal disease; Transplant

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHROLOGY; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 48749102643     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn232     Document Type: Review

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