Sex and the kidney

Hypertension

Volumn 51, Issue 4 PART 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1000-1001

  Iliescu, Radu ^a   Reckelhoff, Jane F ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL DIABETES; SEX DIFFERENCE;

FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; KIDNEY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 40849102804     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.101345     Document Type: Editorial

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