Fetal origins of cardiovascular disease

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 166-170

  Baum, Michel ^a   Ortiz, Luis ^a   Quan, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANGIOTENSIN; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP);

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEXAMETHASONE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037376960     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200304000-00005     Document Type: Review

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