Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Decline Is a Better Risk Factor for Outcomes of Systemic Disease-Related Nephropathy than for Outcomes of Primary Renal Diseases

• Shuo-Chun Weng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuo-Chun Weng, Der-Cherng Tarng

  Affiliations Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Der-Cherng Tarng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuo-Chun Weng, Der-Cherng Tarng

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department and Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and Immunology Research Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chyong-Mei Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Informatics Science, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chi-Hung Cheng,

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, HungKuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Ju Wu,

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Hsu Chen,

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tung-Min Yu,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Hsiung Shu ,

  * E-mail: khshu@vghtc.gov.tw

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• on behalf of the CKDBHPDH investigators