Abdominal aortic calcification is an independent predictor of cardiovascular events in peritoneal dialysis patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 448-453

  Martino, Francesca ^a   Di Loreto, Pierluigi ^a   Giacomini, Dario ^b   Kaushik, Manish ^c   Rodighiero, Maria Pia ^a   Crepaldi, Carlo ^a   Ronco, Claudio ^a,c  

^a Dialysis and Transplantation   (Italy)

^b SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c International Renal Research Institute Vicenza   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk; Peritoneal dialysis; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINE VOLUME;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881552588     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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