Income Gradient in Renal Disease Mortality in the United States

BackgroundNon-communicable diseases and associated mortality follow a social gradient and chronic kidney disease is not an exception to this rule. Intermediate behavioral and medical factors that may explain such social gradients are, however, still unknown.ObjectivesUsing nationally representative...

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Main Authors: Shervin Assari, Maryam Moghani Lankarani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00190/full