The significance of serum urea and renal function in patients with heart failure

Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 197-203

  Gotsman, Israel ^a   Zwas, Donna ^a   Planer, David ^a   Admon, Dan ^a   Lotan, Chaim ^a   Keren, Andre ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CREATININE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; SPIRONOLACTONE; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UREA;

EID: 77954743960     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181e893ee     Document Type: Article

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