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2008

ASN 2008 USRDS Posters

 
USRDS Symposium at ASN
Conducting special studies in the USRDS. Mortality in the first year of dialysis. Cardiac disease diagnosis and treatment in CKD. Comprehensive Dialysis Study overview.
 
Talks
Identifying Chronic Kidney Disease Using Claims Data: Agreement with Estimated GFR Using Two Different Estimating Equations
 
Posters
Hospital admissions for infection increased in incident dialysis patients from 1993 to 2005
   
Continued decline of invasive pneumococcal disease in ESRD patients following introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)
 
Awareness, treatment, & control of hypercholesterolemia in chronic kidney disease Stages 1-4 in NHANES 1999-2004 participants
 
Cystatin C for detecting metabolic abnormalities in U.S. adults: The Third National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey
 
Calcium-phosphate levels & cardiovascular disease in communitydwelling adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
 
Awareness, treatment, & control of hypertension in chronic kidney disease Stages 1-4 in NHANES 1999-2004 participants
 
Prior nephrology care at initiation of hemodialysis in the U.S.: associations & survival implications
   
Preventive healthcare & associations with atherosclerotic heart disease events & all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease patients in the general Medicare population
   
Immortal time bias must be considered in observational studies
   
Medication use following nephrologist vs. other prescriber visit during the transition to end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
   
The burden of walking disability in U.S. dialysis and CKD patients
   
Kidney function in U.S. adolescents, 1988 to 2006: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
   
Use of stage-specific codes for chronic kidney disease in administrative data