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Association of Blood Lead Levels With Mortality in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis  Ja-Liang Lin, MD, Dan-Tzu Lin-Tan, RN, Ching-Wei Hsu, MD, Tzung-Hai.

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1 Association of Blood Lead Levels With Mortality in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis 
Ja-Liang Lin, MD, Dan-Tzu Lin-Tan, RN, Ching-Wei Hsu, MD, Tzung-Hai Yen, MD, Kuan-Hsing Chen, MD, Hsiang-Hao Hsu, MD, Tai- Chin Ho, MT, Kuang-Hong Hsu, PhD  The American Journal of Medicine  Volume 124, Issue 4, Pages (April 2011) DOI: /j.amjmed Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Flow chart shows enrollment and status of patients. HD=hemodialysis. The American Journal of Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Kaplan–Meier survival analysis shows that all-cause mortality rate (10.0%, 31/309) in the high blood lead level group is higher than in the low blood lead level group (2.6%, 8/309) after 18-month prospective follow-up (log-rank tests, χ2 =14.51; P<.001). BLL=blood lead level. The American Journal of Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

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