When should pregnant women with an elevated blood pressure be treated?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1456-1457

  Homuth, Vokler ^a   Dechend, Ralf ^a   Luft, Friedrich C ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antihypertensives; Hypertension; Non target effects; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LIVER ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL CARE; MEDLINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SYMPOSIUM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0042164638     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg264     Document Type: Article

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