Christian Combe
Professeur émérite de Néphrologie
Lyon College
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Christian Combe is a Professor Emeritus of Nephrology at Lyon College, whose work focuses on dialysis, renal disease management, and associated complications. His research spans a range of topics, including blood pressure and hypertension, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, and the use of central venous catheters in hemodialysis. He is particularly interested in the intersection of chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Recent work includes predictive models for the progression of chronic kidney disease to kidney failure, based on routine laboratory tests. Combe's work also investigates the relationship between urea levels and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. His other research considers the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for hemodialysis patients, the role of water intake in the progression of chronic kidney disease, and sex-specific differences in mortality and dialysis incidence.
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- h-index: 71
- Publications: 696
- Citations: 17,574
Selected Publications
- Haemodiafiltration versus high-flux haemodialysis—a Consensus Statement from the EuDial Working Group of the ERA (2025) DOI
- Explaining International Trends in Mortality on Hemodialysis Through Changes in Hemodialysis Practices in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) (2024) DOI
- Urea Level and Depression in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (2024) DOI
- Sex and the Risk of Atheromatous and Nonatheromatous Cardiovascular Disease in CKD: Findings From the CKD-REIN Cohort Study (2024) DOI
- Treatment strategies of the thromboembolic risk in kidney failure patients with atrial fibrillation (2024) DOI
- Ionized and total magnesium levels in patients with chronic kidney disease: associated factors and outcomes (2024) DOI
- Online haemodiafiltration and all-cause mortality: how fragile are the results of the studies published so far? (2024) DOI
- Mediterranean Diet for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Chronic Kidney Disease (2023) DOI
- CKD-Associated Pruritus and Clinical Outcomes in Nondialysis CKD (2023) DOI
- A new approach for cognitive impairment pattern in chronic kidney disease (2023) DOI
- Kidney Function Decline and Serious Adverse Drug Reactions in Patients With CKD (2023) DOI
- Haemoglobin trajectories in chronic kidney disease and risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (2023) DOI
- Study of the association between serum levels of kynurenine and cardiovascular outcomes and overall mortality in chronic kidney disease (2023) DOI
- Active Vitamin D Use and Fractures in Hemodialysis Patients: Results from the International DOPPS (2023) DOI
- Haemodiafiltration for all: are we CONVINCEd? (2023) DOI
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