Chronic kidney disease in Taiwan's aging population: something far more than a distant ship's smoke on the horizon.

J Formos Med Assoc

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and Department and Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Published: December 2014

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