South Asian ethnicity as a risk factor for major adverse cardiovascular events after renal transplantation

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 204-211

  Ramesh Prasad, G V ^a,b   Vangala, Sai K ^a   Silver, Samuel A ^b   Wong, Steven C W ^b   Huang, Michael ^a   Rapi, Lindita ^a   Nash, Michelle M ^a   Zaltzman, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIA; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79251475924     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03100410     Document Type: Article

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