Free Thyroxine Level as an Independent Predictor of Infection-Related Mortality in Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study

• Hee-Yeon Jung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hee-Yeon Jung, Jang-Hee Cho

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Jang-Hee Cho ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hee-Yeon Jung, Jang-Hee Cho

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Hye Min Jang,

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Yon Su Kim,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Shin-Wook Kang,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Chul Woo Yang,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Nam-Ho Kim,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Ji-Young Choi,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Sun-Hee Park,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Chan-Duck Kim,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

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• Yong-Lim Kim ,

  * E-mail: ylkim@knu.ac.kr

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Bk21 Plus KNU Biomedical Convergence Program, Department of Biomedical Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

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• Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease (CRC for ESRD) Investigators

  ¶Membership of the Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease (CRC for ESRD) Investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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