Mortality and serum sodium: Do patients die from or with hyponatremia?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 960-965

  Chawla, Arun ^a   Sterns, Richard H ^b   Nigwekar, Sagar U ^c   Cappuccio, Joseph D ^b  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SODIUM; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957827105     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.10101110     Document Type: Article

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