American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 338-347 , August 2010

Dietary Potassium Intake and Mortality in Long-term Hemodialysis Patients

  • Nazanin Noori, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • ,
  • Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD, Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 West Carson St, C1-Annex, Torrance, CA 90502
    • ,
  • Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salem, VA
    • ,
  • Sameer B. Murali, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • ,
  • Rachelle Bross, RD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • ,
  • Allen R. Nissenson, MD

      Affiliations

    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
    • DaVita Inc, Lakewood, CO
    • ,
  • Joel D. Kopple, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA

Received 11 November 2009 ,Accepted 3 March 2010.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2010.03.022 on June 28, 2010.

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doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2010.03.022

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 338-347 , August 2010

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