Lessons from the profile of kidney diseases among Afghan refugees

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 1621-1627

  Otoukesh, Salman ^a   Mojtahedzadeh, Mona ^a   Cooper, Chad J ^a   Tolouian, Ramin ^b   Said, Sarmad ^a   Ortega, Lauro ^a   Claudia Didia, S ^a   Behazin, Arash ^c   Sherzai, Dean ^d   Blandon, Pedro ^e  

^a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Iran)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic; Delivery of health care; Kidney failure; Medically uninsured; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PATIENT REFERRAL; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URETER STONE; YOUNG ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907256967     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.890958     Document Type: Article

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