A simple four-grade score for aortic arch calcification by posteroanterior chest X-ray is associated with cardiovascular disease in haemodialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1747-1748

  Kurita, Noriaki ^a,b   Hosokawa, Norihisa ^b,c   Nomura, Satoshi ^b   Maeda, Yukiharu ^b   Uchihara, Hirotsugu ^b   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yasu Hospital   (Japan)

^c Rakuwakai Otowa Kinen Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC ARCH SYNDROMES; CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955584325     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr087     Document Type: Letter

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