Left ventricular hypertrophy in African black patients with chronic renal failure at first evaluation

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 859-864

  Ulasi, Ifeoma I ^a   Arodiwe, Ejikeme B ^a   Ijoma, Chinwuba K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anemia; Cardiovascular risk; CKD; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Mean arterial pressure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NIGERIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATININE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 36049009147     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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