Interaction of Time-Varying Albumin and Phosphorus on Mortality in Incident Dialysis Patients
Author(s) -
Emanuel Zitt,
Claudia Lamina,
Gisela Sturm,
Florian Knöll,
Friederike Lins,
Otto Freistätter,
Florian Kronenberg,
Karl Lhotta,
Ulrich Neyer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.03780411
Subject(s) - medicine , hypoalbuminemia , hazard ratio , dialysis , confidence interval , albumin , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , serum albumin , cohort study , phosphorus , gastroenterology , chemistry , organic chemistry
Hypoalbuminemia and hyperphosphatemia have been shown to be strong predictors of mortality in dialysis patients that might not be independent from each other. We prospectively investigated the relationship and interaction between serum albumin and phosphorus with all-cause mortality in an inception cohort of incident dialysis patients.
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