Microalbuminuria is related to marked end organ damage in previously untreated, elderly hypertensive patients

Blood Pressure

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 84-90

  Terpstra, W F ^a   May, J F ^a   Smit, A J ^a   de Graeff, P A ^a   Crijns, H J G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

End organ damage; Hypertension; Microalbuminuria

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; URINE;

AGED; ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIUM; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035988516     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050211267     Document Type: Article

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