Preterm birth and hypertension: Is there a link?

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Bertagnolli, Mariane ^a   Luu, Thuy Mai ^a   Lewandowski, Adam James ^b   Leeson, Paul ^b   Nuyt, Anne Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Developmental origins of cardiovascular diseases; Hypertension; Preeclampsia; Premature infant; Pretermbirth

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 84984797217     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-016-0637-6     Document Type: Article

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