Blood pressure and vascular alterations with growth in childhood

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 17, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 3045-3061

  Masi, Stefano ^a,b   Jones, Alexander ^b   Charakida, Marietta ^b   O'Neill, Francis ^b   D'Aiuto, Francesco ^b   Virdis, Agostino ^a   Taddei, Stefano ^b   Deanfield, John Eric ^a   Ghiadoni, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Childhood development; Vascular alteration

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; NITRIC OXIDE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGE; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CIRCULATING ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CUFF; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FETUS GROWTH; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HABIT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIFESTYLE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SHEAR STRESS; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 80054063749     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161211798157757     Document Type: Article

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