Fetal aortic wall thickness: A marker of hypertension in IUGR children

Hypertension Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 440-443

  Zanardo, Vincenzo ^a   Visentin, Silvia ^a   Trevisanuto, Daniele ^a   Bertin, Martina ^a   Cavallin, Francesco ^a   Cosmi, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

blood pressure; fetal arterial wall thickness; IUGR fetuses and infants; preclinical atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877254105     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2012.219     Document Type: Article

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