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SUBMITTER: Suh SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8911161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suh Sang Heon SH Oh Tae Ryom TR Choi Hong Sang HS Kim Chang Seong CS Bae Eun Hui EH Oh Kook-Hwan KH Lee Joongyub J Oh Yun Kyu YK Jung Ji Yong JY Ma Seong Kwon SK Kim Soo Wan SW On Behalf Of The Korean Cohort Study For Outcomes In Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Know-Ckd Investigators
Journal of clinical medicine 20220222 5
To investigate the association between abdominal aortic calcification score (AACS) assessed by plain radiograph of the lateral abdomen and the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD), a total of 2090 pre-dialysis CKD patients from the Korean Cohort Study for Outcome in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (KNOW-CKD) were categorized by AACS into 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, and ≥7. The primary outcome of the study was the composite CV events, defined as ...[more]