Prevalence and determinants of chronic kidney disease in northeast of Iran: Results of the Golestan cohort study

• Sadaf G. Sepanlou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Hamid Barahimi

  Affiliations Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Fars, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3669-5129

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• Hamid Barahimi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Hamid Barahimi

  Affiliations Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Nephrology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Iraj Najafi,

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Farin Kamangar,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hossein Poustchi,

  Affiliation Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Ramin Shakeri,

  Affiliation Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Monir Sadat Hakemi,

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Akram Pourshams,

  Affiliation Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Masoud Khoshnia,

  Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

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• Abdolsamad Gharravi,

  Affiliation Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Behrooz Broumand,

  Affiliation Academy of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Ali Nobakht-Haghighi,

  Affiliation Academy of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh,

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs (VA) Long Beach Healthcare System‎, Long Beach, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Reza Malekzadeh

  * E-mail: malek@tums.ac.ir

  Affiliations Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Fars, Iran

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