Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health problem with an increasing incidence
and prevalence, poor outcomes, and high cost. Outcomes of chronic kidney disease include …

Objectives. A series of new guidelines has been developed by the National Kidney
Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative to improve the detection and …

Continuing expansion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been recognised as an exceptional
challenge to global health, international development, and world security. UNAIDS …

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease as a public health problem. Chronic kidney disease is
a worldwide public health problem. In the United States, there is a rising incidence and …

Background The optimal time for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy for asymptomatic
patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is uncertain. Methods We …

Background Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly increased survival
among HIV-positive adults in the United States (US) and Canada, but gains in life …

This solutions manual provides answers for the even-numbered exercises in Probability and
Statistical Inference, 9th edition, by Robert V. Hogg, Elliot A. Tanis, and Dale L. Zimmerman …

Background Insufficient data are available from single cohort studies to allow estimation of
the prognosis of HIV-1 infected, treatment-naive patients who start highly active antiretroviral …

A quantitative theory is presented which describes the kinetics of coagulation of colloidal
systems containing more than one dispersed species. A general expression has been …

IgA nephropathy is the most common glomerular disease worldwide, yet there is no
international consensus for its pathological or clinical classification. Here a new …