Impact of the clinical conditions at dialysis initiation on mortality in incident haemodialysis patients: A national cohort study in Taiwan

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2616-2624

  Hwang, Shang Jyh ^a,b   Yang, Wu Chang ^c   Lin, Ming Yen ^a   Mau, Lih Wen ^d   Chen, Hung Chun ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

end stage renal diseases; GFR; haemodialysis; mortality

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954801583     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq308     Document Type: Article

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