Ethnicity and renal replacement therapy

Blood Purification

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Feehally, John ^a,b  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic minorities; Haemodialysis; Peritoneal dialysis; Renal replacement therapy; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIGRANT WORKER; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SHORT SURVEY;

AGE FACTORS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MINORITY GROUPS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77749306532     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000245638     Document Type: Short Survey

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