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Associations Between Low Serum Testosterone and All-Cause Mortality and Infection-Related Hospitalization in Male Hemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study

INTRODUCTION: Infectious diseases are the second highest cause of death in patients on dialysis. In addition, testosterone deficiency or hypogonadism is prevalent in dialysis patients. However, to our knowledge, no studies have investigated the association between testosterone levels and infectious...

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Autores principales: Nakashima, Akio, Ohkido, Ichiro, Yokoyama, Keitaro, Mafune, Aki, Urashima, Mitsuyoshi, Yokoo, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29270524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2017.07.015