Kidney disease and cardiovascular risk
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Kidney failure and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are connected with accelerated cardiovascular disease, apparently owing to a high burden of traditional vascular risk factors and probably nontraditional risk factors such as inflammation, and chronic volume overload. Epidemiology and pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease in CKD are reviewed and clinical and public health implications of the present knowledge are discussed.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0066-4219
Year: 2007
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Diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection
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The declining rates of tuberculosis (TB) since the year 1993 and the latest level of control represent a remarkable achievement in public health and foster optimism that the United States could reach the goal of eliminating TB by 2010. However, the elimination of TB in the United States is linked to the success of TB control around the world as a result of the global burden of TB, intercontinental travel and immigration.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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