A 5-year survey of biopsy proven kidney diseases in Lebanon: Significant variation in prevalence of primary glomerular diseases by age, population structure and consanguinity

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3962-3969

  Karnib, Hussein H ^a   Gharavi, Ali G ^b   Aftimos, Georges ^c   Mahfoud, Ziyad ^a   Saad, Reem ^a   Gemayel, Elias ^d   Masri, Badiaa ^a   Assaad, Shafika ^e   Badr, Kamal F ^f   Ziyadeh, Fuad N ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Institut National de Pathologie   (Lebanon)

^d SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^e LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^f LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

glomerular disease; kidney biopsy; nephrotic syndrome; proteinuria

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRISTIAN; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOSLEM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RELIGION; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRISTIANITY; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; ISLAM; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649503639     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq302     Document Type: Article

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