Clinical factors associated with constipation in hemodialysis patients

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1741-1742

  Ikee, Ryota ^a   Toyoyama, Takayuki ^a   Endo, Toko ^a   Tsunoda, Masataka ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a H N Medic Kitahiroshima ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LAXATIVE; SEVELAMER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; WEIGHT GAIN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEMODIALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STATISTICS;

AGED; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LAXATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84977111312     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: 15732584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-016-1363-3     Document Type: Letter

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