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SUBMITTER: Anderson JLC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8348129 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anderson Josephine L C JLC Poot Margot L ML Steffen Hannah L M HLM Kremer Daan D Bakker Stephan J L SJL Tietge Uwe J F UJF
Journal of clinical medicine 20210726 15
Predicting chronic graft failure in renal transplant recipients (RTR) is an unmet clinical need. Chronic graft failure is often accompanied by transplant vasculopathy, the formation of de novo atherosclerosis in the transplanted kidney. Therefore, we determined whether the 10-year Framingham risk score (FRS), an established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prediction module, is associated with chronic graft failure in RTR. In this prospective longitudinal study, 600 well-characterised RTR ...[more]