Chronic renal disease is not chronic kidney disease: implications for use of the QRISK and Joint British Societies risk scores
<p><strong>Background</strong> Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and European guidelines advocate assessment of CVD risk. QRISK and JBS3 risk calculators do not use the consensus definition of CKD stages 3–5 but instead use a defin...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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