Asian women have attenuated sympathetic activation but enhanced renal-adrenal responses during pregnancy compared to Caucasian women

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 593, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1159-1168

  Okada, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Best, Stuart A ^a,b   Jarvis, Sara S ^a,b   Shibata, Shigeki ^a,b   Parker, Rosemary S ^a,b   Casey, Brian M ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,b   Fu, Qi ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; RENIN;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RACE DIFFERENCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; ALDOSTERONE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; KIDNEY; PREGNANCY; RENIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84923586974     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.282277     Document Type: Article

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