'Time and time again': Oscillatory and longitudinal time patterns in dialysis patients

Kidney and Blood Pressure Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 534-548

  Kooman, Jeroen P ^a   Usvyat, Len ^b   Van Der Sande, Frank M ^a   Thijssen, Stephan ^b   Levin, Nathan ^b   Leunissen, Karel M ^a   Kotanko, Peter ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RENAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated aging; Dialysis patterns; Frailty; Longitudinal time patterns; Oscillatory time patterns

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; IMMOBILIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG TERM CARE; MINERAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLOCK; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; THERMOREGULATION; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM; WEIGHT GAIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864822419     PISSN: 14204096     EISSN: 14230143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000340022     Document Type: Review

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