Natriuretic peptides correlate between newborn twins but not between twins and their mothers

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 377, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 279-280

  Hammerer Lercher, Angelika ^a,b   Sommer, Rudolf ^c   Mair, Johannes ^b   Tews, Gernot ^c   Shebl, Omar ^c   Hawa, Gerhard ^d   Maitzen, Sonja ^d   Woloszczuk, Wolfgang ^d   Puschendorf, Bernd ^a  

^a Medical University Hospital   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Gynecologic and Pediatric Hospital Linz   (Austria)

^d Biomedica Diagnostics   (Austria)

Author keywords

Mothers; NT proANP; NT proBNP; NT proCNP; Twins

Indexed keywords

NATRIURETIC FACTOR;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HUMAN; LETTER; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWINS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDES; TWINS;

EID: 33845451896     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.09.016     Document Type: Letter

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