Urinary albumin excretion, even within the normal range, predicts an increase in left ventricular mass over the following 5 years

Kidney International

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1115-1122

  Reffelmann, Thorsten ^a   Dörr, Marcus ^a   Völzke, Henry ^b   Friedrich, Nele ^b   Krebs, Alexander ^a   Ittermann, Till ^a,b   Felix, Stephan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

albuminuria; blood pressure; clinical epidemiology; hypertension; hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALBUMINURIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINURIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77956941098     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2010.8     Document Type: Article

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