Heart failure in a cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease: the GCKD study.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a risk factor for development and progression of heart failure (HF). CKD and HF share common risk factors, but few data exist on the prevalence, signs and symptoms as well as correlates of HF in populations with CKD of moderate severity. We therefo...

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Main Authors: Hanna Beck, Stephanie I Titze, Silvia Hübner, Martin Busch, Georg Schlieper, Ulla T Schultheiss, Christoph Wanner, Florian Kronenberg, Vera Krane, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Anna Köttgen, GCKD Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395150?pdf=render