The German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study: Design and methods

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1454-1460

  Eckardt, Kai Uwe ^a   Bärthlein, Barbara ^a   Seema, Baid Agrawal ^b   Beck, Andreas ^a   Busch, Martin ^c   Eitner, Frank ^d   Ekici, Arif B ^a   Floege, Jürgen ^d   Gefeller, Olaf ^a   Haller, Hermann ^e   Hilge, Robert ^f   Hilgers, Karl F ^a   Kielstein, Jan T ^e   Krane, Vera ^g   Köttgen, Anna ^h   Kronenberg, Florian ⁱ   Oefner, Peter ^j   Prokosch, Hans Ulrich ^a   Reis, André ^a   Schmid, Matthias ^a   Schaeffner, Elke ^b   Schultheiss, Ulla T ^h   Seuchter, Susanne A ^a   Sitter, Thomas ^f   Sommerer, Claudia ^k   Walz, Gerd ^h   Wanner, Christoph ^g   Wolf, Gunter ^c   Zeier, Martin ^k   Titze, Stephanie ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

biomarkers; cohort; epidemiology; prognosis; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTOR; STUDY DESIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINURIA; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859293985     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr456     Document Type: Article

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