Hypertension, glomerular number, and birth weight in African Americans and white subjects in the southeastern United States

Kidney International

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 671-678

  Hughson, M D ^a   Douglas Denton, R ^b   Bertram, J F ^b   Hoy, W E ^c  

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

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Glomerular number; Human kidney; Hypertension; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; INCIDENCE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL CIRCULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SODIUM; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 32544439900     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000041     Document Type: Article

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