Spot urinary albumin-creatinine ratio predicts left ventricular hypertrophy in young hypertensive African-American men

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1168-1172

  Post, Wendy S ^a,c   Blumenthal, Roger S ^a   Weiss, James L ^a   Levine, David M ^a   Thiemann, David R ^a   Gerstenblith, Gary ^a   Hill, Martha N ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Hypertension; Hypertrophy; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CREATININE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URBAN HEALTH; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033757997     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(00)01181-X     Document Type: Article

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