Race/ethnicity and disease severity in IgA nephropathy

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Hall, Yoshio N ^a   Fuentes, Eloisa F ^a   Chertow, Glenn M ^a   Olson, Jean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PROTEINURIA; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOPSY; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 5444273583     PISSN: 14712369     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-5-10     Document Type: Article

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