Cardiothoracic Ratio as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Events in a Cohort of Hemodialysis Patients

Aim: The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) on a chest X-ray is an indicator of cardiac enlargement, although its predictive power for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in chronic kidney disease is unknown. We examined it in a cohort of hemodialysis patients, as compared with an N-terminal fragment of pro...

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Veröffentlicht in:J Atheroscler Thromb
Hauptverfasser: Okute, Yujiro, Shoji, Tetsuo, Hayashi, Tomoshige, Kuwamura, Yukinobu, Sonoda, Mika, Mori, Katsuhito, Shioi, Atsushi, Tsujimoto, Yoshihiro, Tabata, Tsutomu, Emoto, Masanori, Inaba, Masaaki
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Japan Atherosclerosis Society 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392479/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27629255
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5551/jat.36426
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