Editorial comment: Cystatin C: An emerging marker for pre-timely mortality

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 106-108

  Hansson, Lars Olof ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN C; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; PROGNOSIS;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CYSTATIN C; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77954346352     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2010.02238.x     Document Type: Editorial

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