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A simple vascular calcification score predicts cardiovascular risk in haemodialysis patients
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 2004 · Vol. 19(6) · pp. 1480–1488
Teresa Adragão✉(Direção Geral do Território)A. PiresCarmen de LucasRita BirneLuís M. MagalhãesMarta GonçalvesA. P. Negrao
Abstract
The present vascular calcification scoring represents a simple tool for the assessment of cardiovascular risk related with vascular calcifications in chronic HD patients.
Parathyroid Disorders and TreatmentsDialysis and Renal Disease ManagementVitamin D Research StudiesMedicineHemodialysisCalcificationCardiologyInternal medicineVascular disease
MeSH terms
AdultAgedAged, 80 and overArteriosclerosisBlood VesselsCalcinosisCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleRenal DialysisHumansKidney Failure, ChronicMiddle AgedProspective StudiesROC CurveComorbidity
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