The message for world kidney day 2009: Hypertension and kidney disease: A marriage that should be prevented

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-519

  Bakris, George L ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 66149121898     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.00080109     Document Type: Editorial

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