World Kidney Day 2009: problems and challenges in the emerging epidemic of kidney disease.
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Lynda A. Szczech,* William Harmon, Thomas H. Hostetter, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe, John R. Sedor, Paul Smedberg,** and Jonathan Himmelfarb *Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medicine, Case Western School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; **American Society of Nephrology, Washington, DC; and Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
دوره 20 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009