After their participation, these patients saw improvements in such areas as cardiovascular risk factors, quality of life, physical function, and dialysis efficacy; other benefits included decreases in the levels of markers for inflammation, depression, and mortality. Therefore the scores may represent an over- or underestimation in terms of the risk of CHD in this population. Acknowledgments We thank Prof. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess the influence of the demographic and clinical variables on survival, after adjusting by age. According to the World Health Organization, globally, approximately 15 million adolescents are mothers annually World Health Organization, and
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