Derivation and Validation of Risk Scores to Predict Cerebrovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

• Main Authors: Xiaoxue Zhang (Author), Dahai Yu (Author), Yamei Cai (Author), Jin Shang (Author), Rui Qin (Author), Xing Tian (Author), Zhanzheng Zhao (Author), David Simmons (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims: Cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) is one of the leading causes of death in patients initialising peritoneal dialysis (PD). Currently there is no risk score to predict the future risk of CeVD on entry into PD. This study aimed to derive and validate a risk prediction model for CeVD mort...