Trend from cardiovascular to non-cardiovascular late mortality in patients with renal replacement therapy since childhood

Judith L. Vogelzang, Karlijn J. van Stralen, Kitty J. Jager, Jaap W. Groothoff

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 2013 · 26 citations · 16 references

Abstract

Over the last decade, we found a substantial shift from cardiovascular disease to infections as the main cause of death at long-term follow-up in patients with chronic kidney disease since childhood and who were born before 1979.

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