Chronic Kidney Disease Progression
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Chronic kidney disease progression.
W hether we like it or not, nephrologists around the world have been called to action. Our mission is to attenuate the growth of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Several conditions will need to gel for us to succeed. Although we now have a better understanding of its alarming incidence and prevalence within populations, however we choose to define it, better methods are needed to identify at risk ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1681/asn.2006070704