High prevalence of kidney disease in two rural communities in Kosovo and Metohia

Renal Failure

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-546

  Stašević, Zvonko ^a   Gorgieva, Gordana Šubari ^b   Vasi, Suzana ^b   Ristić, Slavica ^b   Djukanovi, Ljubić ^c   Ležai, Višnja ^c  

^a Donja Gušterica ^*  (Serbia)

^b Internal Clinic   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Kidney disease prevalence; Kosovo and Metohia; Rural settlements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RURAL AREA; SERBIA; TUBULAR DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 77953005327     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08860221003706974     Document Type: Article

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