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Familiality of cardiovascular mortality in end-stage renal disease patients.
American journal of nephrology - 1 Jan 2009
Naiman Natalie, Cheung Alfred K, Goldfarb-Rumyantzev Alexander S
Abstract excerpt
A very high rate of cardiovascular (CV) death is well recognized in individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Besides many other factors, this excess risk may also be related to familiality. We tested this hypothesis by estimating the risk of CV death among both ESRD patients and their relatives. In this case-control study, we used the Utah Population Database (UPDB), which includes genealogy records,...
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