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Strong association of carotid plaques with mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in hemodialysis patients

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boxed-textSchwaiger JP et al. (2006) Carotid plaques and their predictive value for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients considering renal transplantation: a decade follow-up. Am J Kidney Dis 47: 888–897

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R Mehrotra has acted as a consultant for Novartis and Shire. He has received research support from Shire, Baxter Healthcare, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson, and honoraria from Shire and Baxter Healthcare. S Adler declared she has no competing interests.

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