Chronic kidney disease and the ageing population

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9925, 2014, Pages 1278-1279

  Tonelli, Marcello ^a   Riella, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; NOTE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY-DEPENDENT RENAL DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84898027947     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60155-0     Document Type: Note

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