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Comment
. 2019 Jul;30(7):1337.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019030225. Epub 2019 May 16.

Confounding of Race/Ethnicity and Age in the Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings

Guofen Yan  1
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Comment

Confounding of Race/Ethnicity and Age in the Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings

Guofen Yan. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: confounding effect; dialysis survival; stratified analysis.

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  • Authors' Reply.
    Wang V, Coffman CJ, O'Hare AM, Maciejewski ML. Wang V, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jul;30(7):1338-1339. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019040402. Epub 2019 May 16. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 31097610 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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  • Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings.
    Wang V, Coffman CJ, Stechuchak KM, Berkowitz TSZ, Hebert PL, Edelman D, O'Hare AM, Crowley ST, Weidenbacher HJ, Maciejewski ML. Wang V, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jan;30(1):159-168. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2018050521. Epub 2018 Dec 7. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 30530657 Free PMC article.

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