Evolution and hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 260-265

  Weder, Alan B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Box 322 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINOGEN; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 3A5; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SODIUM; URIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY GROWTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NATRIURESIS; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; EVOLUTION; GROWTH; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NATRIURESIS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33846418747     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000255165.84684.9d     Document Type: Editorial

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