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Kidney Disease Class -- Roman or Arabic? - tired

Posted: Oct 29, 2009

I've seen kidney disease classifications both Arabic and Roman. Which is correct? I've been using Arabic, but I just had an editor change a report to Roman. I'm confused and can't find it in BOS2. Thanks!

We use Arabic and the - sm

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Medicine National Institute of Health uses Arabic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18727887

Thanks! And what a great website! At least now I have - tired

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something to fall back on in defense when I do use Arabic!

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