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. 2022 Sep;22(9):2277-2278.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.17080. Epub 2022 May 11.

Moving toward clinical implementation of the physical frailty phenotype in kidney transplantation

Xiaomeng Chen  1 , Omid Shafaat  1   2 , Yi Liu  1 , Elizabeth A King  1 , Clifford R Weiss  2 , Qian-Li Xue  3 , Jeremy D Walston  3 , Dorry L Segev  1   4 , Mara A DeMarco  1   4
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Moving toward clinical implementation of the physical frailty phenotype in kidney transplantation

Xiaomeng Chen et al. Am J Transplant. 2022 Sep.
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The authors of this manuscript have no conflicts of interest to disclose as described by the American Journal of Transplantation.

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