American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 62-68 , January 2008

Kidney dysfunction and fatal cardiovascular disease—an association independent of atherosclerotic events: Results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) study

  • Rajat Deo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
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  • Christina L. Wassel Fyr, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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  • Linda F. Fried, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • The Renal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Renal Section, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Tamara B. Harris, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
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  • Sara Angleman

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
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  • Christie Green, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
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  • Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD

      Affiliations

    • J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging and Rehabilitation, Wake Forest Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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  • Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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  • Steven R. Cummings, MD

      Affiliations

    • California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
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  • Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • General Internal Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco, General Internal Medicine Section, VA Medical Center (111A1), 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121.
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  • for the Health ABC study

Received 16 March 2007 ,Accepted 12 August 2007.

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 Health ABC was supported through the National Institute on Aging contracts N01-AG-6-2101, N01-AG-6-2103, and N01-AG-6-2106. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging.

PII: S0002-8703(07)00687-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.08.012

American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 62-68 , January 2008

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