Changes in osmol gap in chronic kidney disease: An exploratory study

Renal Failure

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 198-201

  Shaikh, Gulvahid ^a   Sehgal, Rahul ^a   Sandhu, Sukhdeep ^a   Vaddineni, Suneetha ^a   Fogel, Joshua ^b   Rubinstein, Sofia ^a  

^a NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney failure; End stage renal disease; Osmolality; Osmolarity; Renal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSMOLALITY; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SODIUM;

EID: 84896717283     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2013.838052     Document Type: Article

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