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Review
. 2011 Jun;1(1):21-23.
doi: 10.1038/kisup.2011.7.

Cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients: where is the link?

Kitty J Jager  1 , Bengt Lindholm  2 , David Goldsmith  3 , Danilo Fliser  4 , Andrzej Wiecek  5 , Gultekin Suleymanlar  6 , Alberto Ortiz  7 , Ziad Massy  8 , Alberto Martinez-Castelao  9 , Rajiv Agarwal  10 , Peter J Blankestijn  11 , Adrian Covic  12 , Gerard London  13 , Carmine Zoccali  14 , Friedo W Dekker  15 ; for EUropean REnal and CArdiovascular Medicine working group of the European Renal Association–European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA–EDTA)
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Review

Cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients: where is the link?

Kitty J Jager et al. Kidney Int Suppl (2011). 2011 Jun.

Abstract

Over the past decade, the research agenda in dialysis has been dominated by studies on risk factors associated with cardiovascular mortality. It has now become increasingly clear that in dialysis patients, non-cardiovascular causes of death are increased to the same extent as cardiovascular mortality, and therefore research efforts in this area deserve an equally prominent place on the nephrology research agenda. As previous research has suggested an association between cardiovascular disease and infections, more research on potential links between the causal pathways of cardiovascular events and infections is also warranted.

Keywords: cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular mortality; dialysis; mortality; non-cardiovascular mortality; renal replacement therapy.

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Proposal for a new research agenda on the cardiovascular–renal and non-cardiovascular–renal links.
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