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SUBMITTER: Baldwin MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3628840 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20120215 5
Hypoalbuminemia predicts disability and mortality in patients with various illnesses and in the elderly. The association between serum albumin concentration at the time of listing for lung transplantation and the rate of death after lung transplantation is unknown. We examined 6808 adults who underwent lung transplantation in the United States between 2000 and 2008. We used Cox proportional hazard models and generalized additive models to examine multivariable-adjusted associations between serum ...[more]