Structural and Functional Changes With the Aging Kidney

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 19-28

  Denic, Aleksandar ^a,b   Glassock, Richard J ^a,b   Rule, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Glomerular filtration rate; Glomerulosclerosis; Kidney function; Nephrosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TUMOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEPHRON; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENESCENCE; AGING; KIDNEY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84953327521     PISSN: 15485595     EISSN: 15485609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ackd.2015.08.004     Document Type: Review

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