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Joseph Lau
Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publications - 1113
Citations - 108789
Joseph Lau is an academic researcher from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Men who have sex with men. The author has an hindex of 140, co-authored 1048 publications receiving 99305 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Lau include Newton Wellesley Hospital & City University of New York.
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K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: Evaluation, classification, and stratification
Andrew S. Levey,Josef Coresh,Kline Bolton,Bruce Culleton,Kathy Schiro Harvey,T. Alp Ikizler,Cynda Ann Johnson,Annamaria T. Kausz,Paul L. Kimmel,John W. Kusek,Adeera Levin,Kenneth L. Minaker,Robert Nelson,Helmut G. Rennke,Michael Steffes,Beth Witten,Ronald J. Hogg,Susan Furth,Kevin V. Lemley,Ronald J. Portman,George Schwartz,Joseph Lau,Ethan M Balk,Ronald D. Perrone,Tauqeer Karim,Lara Rayan,Inas Al-Massry,Priscilla Chew,Brad C. Astor,Deirdre De Vine,Garabed Eknoyan,Nathan W. Levin,Sally Burrows-Hudson,William F. Keane,Alan S. Kliger,Derrick Latos,Donna Mapes,Edith Oberley,Kerry Willis,George R. Bailie,Gavin J. Becker,Jerrilynn Burrowes,David Churchill,Allan J. Collins,William Couser,Dick DeZeeuw,Alan Garber,Thomas Golper,Frank A. Gotch,Antonio M. Gotto,Joel W. Greer,Richard H. Grimm,Ramon G. Hannah,Jaime Herrera Acosta,Ronald J. Hogg,Lawrence G. Hunsicker,Michael J. Klag,Saulo Klahr,Caya Lewis,Edmund G. Lowrie,Arthur J. Matas,Sally McCulloch,Maureen Michael,Joseph V. Nally,John M. Newmann,Allen R. Nissenson,Keith Norris,William F. Owen,Thakor G. Patel,Glenda Payne,Rosa A. Rivera-Mizzoni,David A. Smith,Robert A. Star,Theodore Steinman,Fernando Valderrábano,John Walls,Jean Pierre Wauters,Nanette Wenger,Josephine P. Briggs +78 more
TL;DR: In the early 1990s, the National Kidney Foundation (K/DOQI) developed a set of clinical practice guidelines to define chronic kidney disease and to classify stages in the progression of kidney disease.
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Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials
Jonathan A C Sterne,Alex J. Sutton,John P. A. Ioannidis,Norma Terrin,David R. Jones,Joseph Lau,James R. Carpenter,Gerta Rücker,Roger M. Harbord,Christopher H. Schmid,Jennifer Tetzlaff,Jonathan J Deeks,Jaime Peters,Petra Macaskill,Guido Schwarzer,Sue Duval,Douglas G. Altman,David Moher,Julian P T Higgins +18 more
TL;DR: How to interpret funnel plot asymmetry, recommends appropriate tests, and explains the implications for choice of meta-analysis model are described.
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National kidney foundation practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification
Andrew S. Levey,Josef Coresh,Ethan M Balk,Annamaria T. Kausz,Adeera Levin,Michael W. Steffes,Ronald J. Hogg,Ronald D. Perrone,Joseph Lau,Garabed Eknoyan +9 more
TL;DR: The goal is to disseminate the simple definition and five-stage classification system of Chronic kidney disease, to summarize the major recommendations on early detection of chronic kidney disease in adults, and to consider some of the issues associated with these recommendations.
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Quantitative Synthesis in Systematic Reviews
TL;DR: A stepwise description of the tasks that are performed when statistical methods are used to combine data and the question, Are the results of the different studies similar (homogeneous)?
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The Role of Vitamin D and Calcium in Type 2 Diabetes. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: Evidence from trials with vitamin D and/or calcium supplementation suggests that combined Vitamin D and calcium supplementation may have a role in the prevention of type 2 DM only in populations at high risk (i.e. glucose intolerance).