Mortality among living kidney donors and comparison populations

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 797-798

  Lin, Julie ^a   Kramer, Holly ^b   Chandraker, Anil K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 77955879254     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1002100     Document Type: Letter

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