Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association of Body Mass Index and Survival in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

BACKGROUND: In maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients, overweight and obesity are associated with survival advantages. Given greater survival of minority maintenance HD patients, we hypothesized that elevated body mass index (BMI) is more strongly associated with lower mortality among Blacks and His...

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Autori principali: Ricks, Joni, Molnar, Miklos Z, Kovesdy, Csaba P, Kopple, Joel D, Norris, Keith C, Mehrotra, Rajnish, Nissenson, Allen R, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Greenland, Sander, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 2011
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183288/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21658829
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2011.03.023
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