Sex-Specific Differences in Hemodialysis Prevalence and Practices and the Male-to-Female Mortality Rate: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Hecking, Manfred ^a   Bieber, Brian A ^b   Ethier, Jean ^c   Kautzky Willer, Alexandra ^a   Sunder Plassmann, Gere ^a   Säemann, Marcus D ^a   Ramirez, Sylvia P B ^b,e   Gillespie, Brenda W ^d   Pisoni, Ronald L ^b   Robinson, Bruce M ^b   Port, Friedrich K ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ARBOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Abilitas Consulting   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE BINDING AGENT; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; VASCULAR ACCESS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84908325590     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001750     Document Type: Article

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