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Abstract
The definition and staging of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have provided a unifying approach to CKD that has generated considerable new information on the epidemiology, course, outcomes, and burden of CKD. Eriksen and Ingebretsen propose a change in the current 3 months chronicity criterion of CKD. Whereas longer lengths of chronicity changed the number of patients in stages 3 and 4, mortality remained high in each of their new groupings. Essentially, CKD persisted and remained a risk multiplier of death.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17972908 DOI： 10.1038/sj.ki.5002576
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Kidney Int ISSN： 0085-2538 Impact factor: 10.612