The obesity paradox and mortality associated with surrogates of body size and muscle mass in patients receiving hemodialysis.

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Published in Mayo Clin Proc on November 01, 2010

Authors

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1, Elani Streja, Csaba P Kovesdy, Antigone Oreopoulos, Nazanin Noori, Jennie Jing, Allen R Nissenson, Mahesh Krishnan, Joel D Kopple, Rajnish Mehrotra, Stefan D Anker

Author Affiliations

1: Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509-2910, USA. kamkal@ucla.edu

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