Employment of patients receiving maintenance dialysis and after kidney transplant: A cross-sectional study from Finland

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 700-706

  Helanterä, Ilkka ^a   Haapio, Mikko ^a   Koskinen, Petri ^a   Grönhagen Riska, Carola ^a   Finne, Patrik ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases   (Finland)

Author keywords

Employment; hemodialysis; kidney transplantation; peritoneal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOME DIALYSIS; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859798141     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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