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SUBMITTER: Chan KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4625678 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chan Kevin E KE Newton-Cheh Christopher C Gusella James F JF Maddux Franklin W FW
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20150416 11
Patients on dialysis are 20 times more likely to have a cardiac arrest compared with the general population. We considered whether inherited factors associate with cardiac arrest among patients on dialysis. From a sample of 647,457 patients on chronic dialysis, we identified 5117 pairs of patients who came from the same family. These patients were each matched to a control subject from the same population. McNemar's tests were used to compare the risk of cardiac arrest between the familial relat ...[more]