Mortality Prediction by Surrogates of Body Composition: An Examination of the Obesity Paradox in Hemodialysis Patients Using Composite Ranking Score Analysis

In hemodialysis patients, lower body mass index and weight loss have been associated with higher mortality rates, a phenomenon sometimes called the obesity paradox. This apparent paradox might be explained by loss of muscle mass. The authors thus examined the relation to mortality of changes in dry...

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Hlavní autoři: Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar, Streja, Elani, Molnar, Miklos Z., Lukowsky, Lilia R., Krishnan, Mahesh, Kovesdy, Csaba P., Greenland, Sander
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: Oxford University Press 2012
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390012/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22427612
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwr384
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