American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 404-411 , September 2007

Body Mass Index and Mortality in CKD

  • Magdalena Madero, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
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  • Mark J. Sarnak, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
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  • Xuelei Wang, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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  • Carmen Castaneda Sceppa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA
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  • Tom Greene, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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  • Gerald J. Beck, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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  • John W. Kusek, PhD

      Affiliations

    • National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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  • Allan J. Collins, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN.
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  • Andrew S. Levey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
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  • Vandana Menon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Vandana Menon, MD, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Division of Nephrology, 750 Washington St, NEMC #391, Boston, MA 02111.

Received 13 November 2006 ,Accepted 12 June 2007.

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 Because an author of this manuscript is an editor for AJKD, the peer-review and decision-making processes were handled entirely by an outside editor, Paul Muntner, PhD, MHS, Tulane University, who served as Acting Editor-in-Chief. Details of the journal’s procedures for potential editor conflicts are given in the Editorial Policies section of the AJKD website.

 Originally published online as doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.06.004 on August 1, 2007.

PII: S0272-6386(07)00929-8

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.06.004

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 404-411 , September 2007

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