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Tackling inactivity on the waiting list for transplantation

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An analysis of the US kidney transplant waiting list suggests that recording a potential recipient as 'inactive', during which time he or she cannot be offered a donor organ, is becoming increasingly common and is not in patients' best interests.

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Our experimental and epidemiological studies in mineral bone disorders associated with chronic kidney disease have received support from FICYT (IB05.060), ISCIII.Retics.RD06, REDinREN (16/06), Fundación Renal iñigo Alvarez de Toledo.

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Berthoux, F. Tackling inactivity on the waiting list for transplantation. Nat Rev Nephrol 5, 308–309 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2009.53

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