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Hypoxia: The Force that Drives Chronic Kidney Disease.
Clinical medicine & research - 1 Mar 2016
Fu Qiangwei, Colgan Sean P, Shelley Carl Simon
Abstract excerpt
In the United States the prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) reached epidemic proportions in 2012 with over 600,000 patients being treated. The rates of ESRD among the elderly are disproportionally high. Consequently, as life expectancy increases and the baby-boom generation reaches retirement age, the already heavy burden imposed by ESRD on the US health care system is set to increase dramatically. ESRD...
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