Interleukin-6 is a stronger predictor of total and cardiovascular mortality than C-reactive protein in haemodialysis patients

Despite the well known association between interleukin-6 (IL-6) and cardiovascular mortality, no study has so far verified whether IL-6 adds prognostic information to that provided by C-reactive protein (CRP). A cohort of 218 haemodialysis patients from four different dialytic centres was followed-u...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation Jg. 19; H. 5; S. 1154
Hauptverfasser:	Panichi, Vincenzo, Maggiore, Umberto, Taccola, Daniele, Migliori, Massimiliano, Rizza, Giovanni Manca, Consani, Cristina, Bertini, Alessio, Sposini, Stefano, Perez-Garcia, Rafael, Rindi, Paolo, Palla, Roberto, Tetta, Ciro
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	England 01.05.2004
Schlagworte:	Biomarkers - blood C-Reactive Protein - analysis Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality Cohort Studies Databases, Factual Female Humans Interleukin-6 - blood Male Middle Aged Predictive Value of Tests Renal Dialysis - mortality Reproducibility of Results Retrospective Studies
ISSN:	0931-0509
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