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History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Analysis of the Association between Hemoglobin Variability and Mortality among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

2008; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 3; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2215/cjn.04281007

1555-905X

Steven M. Brunelli, Marshall M. Joffe, Rubeen Israni, Wei Yang, Steven Fishbane, Jeffrey S. Berns, Harold I. Feldman,

Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Hemoglobin variability is common among dialysis patients, and has been associated with increased mortality. The causal nature of this association has been difficult to ascertain because of potential time-dependent confounding, for which traditional statistical methods do not control.