Gender-specific correlates of leptin with hypertension-related phenotypes in African Americans

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 989-993

  El Gharbawy, Areeg H ^a   Kotchen, Jane Morley ^a   Grim, Clarance E ^a   Kaldunski, Mary ^a   Hoffmann, Raymond G ^a   Pausova, Zdenka ^b   Hamet, Pavel ^b   Kotchen, Theodore A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

African American; Leptin; Obesity related hypertension

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LITHIUM; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM ABSORPTION; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036841320     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(02)03089-3     Document Type: Article

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