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SUBMITTER: de Boer IH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5042675 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Boer Ian H IH Kovesdy Csaba P CP Navaneethan Sankar D SD Peralta Carmen A CA Tuot Delphine S DS Vazquez Miguel A MA Crews Deidra C DC
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20160609 10
Randomized controlled trials in CKD lag in number behind those of other chronic diseases, despite the high morbidity and mortality experienced by patients with kidney disease and the exorbitant costs of their health care. Observational studies of CKD frequently yield seemingly paradoxic associations of traditional risk factors with outcomes, making it difficult to extrapolate the results of trials conducted in people with normal kidney function to patients with CKD. However, many completed trial ...[more]