Are the high mortality rates in dialysis patients mainly due to cardiovascular causes?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 481-483

  Krediet, Raymond T ^a   Boeschoten, Elisabeth W ^b   Dekker, Friedo W ^c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Hans Mak Institute for Quality Management in Nephrology   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dialysis; infections; non cardiovascular mortality; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEMORY CELL; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856828071     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr518     Document Type: Article

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