End-stage kidney failure in Indigenous Australians

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 304-306

  Mathews, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ABORIGINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBUMINURIA; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRITIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POPULATION GROUPS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 50449103441     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00244.x     Document Type: Editorial

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