Full loss of residual renal function causes higher mortality in dialysis patients; Findings from a marginal structural model

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2978-2983

  Van Der Wal, Willem M ^a,b   Noordzij, Marlies ^a   Dekker, Friedo W ^c   Boeschoten, Elisabeth W ^d   Krediet, Raymond T ^a   Korevaar, Johanna C ^a   Geskus, Ronald B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Hans Mak Institute   (Netherlands)

^e Amsterdam Health Service ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

causal modelling; end stage renal disease; inverse probability weighting; marginal structural model; residual glomerular filtration rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HAZARD RATIO; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79961075988     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq856     Document Type: Article

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