Does BMI sufficiently predict renal transplant outcomes?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 566-567

  Grinyó, Josep M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84866980717     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2012.167     Document Type: Article

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