Hyperuricaemia and preeclampsia: Is there a pathogenic link?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 239-244

  Schackis, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBENECID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; PATHOGENESIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CREATINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERURICEMIA; PLATELET COUNT; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROBENECID; URIC ACID;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242775497     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.02.018     Document Type: Article

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