Is the kidney just a modified blood vessel? Unravelling the direction of causality between cardiovascular and renal disease

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 275-276

  Tomlinson, Laurie A ^a   Holt, Stephen G ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Renal failure; Vascular stiffness

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; ENDOTHELIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK FACTOR;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; UREMIA; VASODILATION;

EID: 79958018427     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.02.049     Document Type: Note

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