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Affiliation
Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: tbrady8@jhmi.edu.; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.; J.W. Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN.; Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.; Division of Nephrology, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO.; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Authors
Brady Tammy M, Roem Jennifer, Cox Christopher, Schneider Michael F, Wilson Amy C, Furth Susan L, Warady Bradley A, Mitsnefes Mark
Studies
Abstract
Traditional and nontraditional cardiovascular disease risk factors are highly prevalent in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We examined the longitudinal association of adiposity with cardiac damage among children with CKD and explored whether this association was modified by sex.