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Vitamin D status and mortality of German hemodialysis patients

Rolfdieter Krause1, Hans-Jürgen Schober-Halstenberg, Günter Edenharter

  • 1KfH Nephrological Center Moabit, Turmstr. 20A, 10559 Berlin, Germany. rolfdieter.krause@kfh-dialyse.de

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