title: Conservative management of chronic kidney disease: how to avoid or defer dialysis.
authors.affiliation: Territorial Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, ASL 8, Cagliari, Italy - pg.bolasco@tin.it.
authors.forename: Piergiorgio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bolasco
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA.|Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Kamyar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kalantar-Zadeh
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rhee