Low birth weight infants do not have capillary rarefaction at birth: Implications for early life influence on microcirculation

Hypertension

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 847-851

  D'Souza, Rohan ^a,b   Raghuraman, Rajendra P ^a   Nathan, Preetha ^a   Manyonda, Isaac T ^b   Antonios, Tarek F T ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary rarefaction; Hypertension; Low birth weight; Microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CAPILLARY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANGIOSCOPY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CAPILLARIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 83155192211     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.179226     Document Type: Article

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