Ethnicity is important for creatinine excretion among Inuit and Caucasians in Greenland

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-50

  Andersen, Stig ^a,b   Dehnfeld, Marie ^a   Laurberg, Peter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Department of Medicine   (Denmark)

Author keywords

24 hour urine samples; Creatinine; Eskimos; Ethnicity; Greenland inuit; Urinary excretion

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INUIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; CREATININE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920755986     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365513.2014.965737     Document Type: Article

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