Birth weight, malnutrition and kidney-associated outcomes - A global concern

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 135-149

  Luyckx, Valerie A ^a   Brenner, Barry M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CHILD NUTRITION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE MARKER; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL OBESITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEPHRON; NEWBORN; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE USE; COMPLICATION; HEALTH; KIDNEY DISEASES; RISK FACTOR;

BIRTH WEIGHT; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84923785931     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2014.251     Document Type: Article

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