Enter the dragon: A Chinese epidemic of chronic kidney disease?

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9818, 2012, Pages 783-785

  Kovesdy, Csaba P ^a,b,c   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^d,e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHINESE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84857856129     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60115-9     Document Type: Note

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