Associations of Glomerular Number and Birth Weight With Clinicopathological Features of African Americans and Whites

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-28

  Hughson, Michael D ^a   Gobe, Glenda C ^b   Hoy, Wendy E ^b   Manning Jr , R Davis ^a   Douglas Denton, Rebecca ^c   Bertram, John F ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arteriolonephrosclerosis; birth weight; glomerular number; Hypertension; race

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AUTOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 45449091749     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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