Red blood cell distribution width and mortality and hospitalizations in peritoneal dialysis patients | Zendy

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Red blood cell distribution width and mortality and hospitalizations in peritoneal dialysis patients

Author(s) -

Melissa Soohoo,

Miklos Z. Molnar,

Ákos Újszászi,

Yoshitsugu Obi,

Csaba P. Kövesdy,

Kamyar KalantarZadeh,

Elani Streja

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

nephrology dialysis transplantation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1460-2385

pISSN - 0931-0509

DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfy196

Subject(s) - medicine , red blood cell distribution width , hazard ratio , peritoneal dialysis , proportional hazards model , hemodialysis , anemia , confidence interval , risk of mortality , mortality rate , dialysis

Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is found to be associated with different types of anemia and has recently been studied as a prognostic marker of mortality in hemodialysis patients. However, the relationship of RDW with mortality and hospitalization rate in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients is less known.

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