Fluid retention is associated with cardiovascular mortality in patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis.

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Published in Circulation on January 26, 2009

Authors

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1, Deborah L Regidor, Csaba P Kovesdy, David Van Wyck, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Tamara B Horwich, Gregg C Fonarow

Author Affiliations

1: Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson St, C1-Annex, Torrance, CA 90509-2910, USA. kamkal@ucla.edu

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