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Abdominal obesity and smoking are important determinants of C-reactive protein in renal transplant recipients.
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BACKGROUND: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a predictor of coronary heart disease, total mortality and chronic allograft nephropathy in renal transplant recipients. The determinants of CRP have been investigated in the general population, but not in renal transplant recipients. CRP might reflect metabolic aberrations in association with central obesity and systemic atherosclerosis. However, it may also reflect a low-grade immune-mediated response to the graft. In this study we investigated the f...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 2524-2531
- Publication date:
- 2005-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2385
- ISSN:
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0931-0509
- Source identifiers:
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190974
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:190974
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- pubs:190974
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2005
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