Low Serum Potassium Levels Increase the Infectious-Caused Mortality in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Propensity-Matched Score Study

• Silvia Carreira Ribeiro,

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil

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• Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo,

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Medicine and Health Sciences, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Pasqual Barretti,

  Affiliation School of Medicine, UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil

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• Roberto Pecoits-Filho,

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil

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• Thyago Proenca de Moraes ,

  * E-mail: thyago.moraes@pucpr.br

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil

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• all centers that contributed to the BRAZPD II study

  ¶Centers that contributed to the BRAZPD II are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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