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Association between Heights of Dialysis Patients and Outcomes: Results from a Retrospective Cohort Study of the International MONitoring Dialysis Outcomes (MONDO) Database Initiative
Author(s) -
Samir S. Patel,
Alice Topping,
Xiaoling Ye,
Hanjie Zhang,
Bernard Canaud,
Paola Carioni,
Cristina Marelli,
Adrián Guinsburg,
Albert Power,
Neill Duncan,
Jeroen P. Kooman,
Frank M. van der Sande,
Len A. Usvyat,
Yuedong Wang,
Xiaoqi Xu,
Peter Kotanko,
Jochen G. Raimann
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
blood purification
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1421-9735
pISSN - 0253-5068
DOI - 10.1159/000485162
Subject(s) - medicine , decile , hazard ratio , dialysis , database , proportional hazards model , hemodialysis , retrospective cohort study , population , cohort , cohort study , body mass index , demography , confidence interval , environmental health , statistics , mathematics , sociology , computer science
Tall people have improved metabolic profiles and better cardiovascular outcomes, a relationship inverted in dialysis patients. We investigated the relationship between height and outcomes in incident hemodialysis (HD) patients commencing treatment in an analysis of the international Monitoring Dialysis Outcomes (MONDO) database.

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