Incremental and Once- to Twice-Weekly Hemodialysis: From Experience to Evidence
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Yoshitsugu Obi and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, USA; Nephrology Section, Tibor Rubin Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, USA; and Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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