Low Birth Weight and Kidney Function: Is There a Relationship and Is it Determined by the Intrauterine Environment?

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 531-534

  Hughson, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CHILD GROWTH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34548815651     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.07.026     Document Type: Editorial

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