Obesity, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality in Critical Illness

Objectives: Although obesity is associated with risk for chronic kidney disease and improved survival, less is known about the associations of obesity with risk of acute kidney injury and post acute kidney injury mortality. Design: In a single-center inception cohort of almost 15,000 critically ill...

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Main Authors: Danziger, John, Chen, Ken P., Mukamal, Kenneth J., Lee, Joonwu, Feng, Mengling, Celi, Leo Anthony G., Mark, Roger G
Other Authors: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Format: Article
Published: Wolters Kluwer - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112812
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8593-9321
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-2978