A prospective study of the physician effect on blood pressure in renal-transplant recipients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 996-1000

  Prasad, G V Ramesh ^a   Nash, Michelle M ^a   Zaltzman, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Physician effect; Post transplant hypertension; White coat effect; White coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY WEIGHT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; RECIPIENT; SITTING; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038701948     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg038     Document Type: Article

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