Poor awareness of chronic kidney disease in patients with acute coronary syndrome - Challenge for cardiologists and nephrologists

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1697-1698

  Babińska, Magdalena ^a   Chudek, Jerzy ^a   Ignacy, Witold ^a   Owczarek, Aleksander ^b   Prochaczek, Fryderyk ^c   Wicek, Andrzej ^a  

^a Department of Nephrology Endocrinology and Metabolic Dieseases ^*  (Poland)

^b Statistical Division   (Jordan)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; AWARENESS; CARDIOLOGIST; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 65249160169     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp076     Document Type: Letter

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