Glenn M. Chertow

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  • Serum blood urea nitrogen as an independent marker of subsequent mortality among patients with acute coronary syndromes and normal to mildly reduced glomerular filtration rates.

    Kirtane AJ, Leder DM, Waikar SS, Chertow GM, Ray KK, Pinto DS, Karmpaliotis D, Burger AJ, Murphy SA, Cannon CP, Braunwald E, Gibson CM. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005; 45 (11): 1781-6

    We hypothesized that elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN) would be associated with adverse outcomes independent of serum creatinine (sCr)-based estimates of kidney function in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

    PubMedID: 15936606

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