The prevalence of chronic kidney disease in a Flemish primary care morbidity register

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-233

  Van pottelbergh, Gijs ^a   Bartholomeeusen, Stefaan ^a   Buntinx, Frank ^a,b   Degryse, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BELGIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84857199744     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr154     Document Type: Letter

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