Open questions on Balkan nephropathy
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Open questions on Balkan nephropathy.
The prevalence of the disease was stable over many years, but now appears to decline in most affected settlements w1x. Some authors also suggest that the incidence of BEN decreases w1,2x and that it appears to be tapering off; others, however, describe a stable incidence of BEN w3x. The question arises on different epidemiological characteristics of the disease in different endemic regions. In ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.suppl_6.27