End-organ damage in urbanized Africans with low plasma renin levels: the SABPA study

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-75

  Van Rooyen, Johannes M ^a   Schutte, Aletta E ^a   Huisman, Hugo W ^a   Schutte, Rudolph ^a   Fourie, Carla M T ^a   Malan, Nicolaas T ^a   Malan, Leoné ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africans; End organ damage; Kidney; Renin; Urbanized

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; POTASSIUM; RENIN; SODIUM;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ALBUMIN CREATININE RATIO; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALORIMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR MONITORING DEVICE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FINOMETER; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TURBIDIMETRY; URBANIZATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WINDKESSEL COMPLIANCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84892574087     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: 15256006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641963.2013.789044     Document Type: Article

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