Are traditional risk factors valid for assessing cardiovascular risk in end-stage renal failure patients?

Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 667-671

  Shah, Dibya S ^a   Polkinghorne, Kevan R ^b   Pellicano, Rebecca ^b   Kerr, Peter G ^b  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk factors; Cardiovascular risk prediction; Dialysis; End stage renal failure; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149129499     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2008.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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