Altitude and all-cause mortality in incident dialysis patients

JAMA

Volumn 301, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 508-512

  Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C ^a,b   Liu, Jun ^a   Brookhart, M Alan ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL;

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

AGED; ALTITUDE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649097117     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.84     Document Type: Article

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