Racial disparities in the association of foetal growth retardation to childhood blood pressure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1592-1597

  Rostand, Stephen G ^a   Cliver, Suzanne P ^b   Goldenberg, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Blood pressure; Children; Foetal growth retardation; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SMOKING;

EID: 26444526287     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh833     Document Type: Article

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