Lane PH, Lynch RE, Steinhardt GH, Wood EG
Renal mass and blood pressure in normal children
Am Soc Nephrol
J Am Soc Nephrol (abstract)
(Nov) 6:643 1995
Reduced nephron number might predispose to hypertension. Lane et al.,
tested this hypothesis in a group of 257 children who underwent kidney
echotomography for UTI or microscopic hematuria and showed no anatomical
alterations. In contrast with the hypothesis, kidney length (corrected for
height) was
directly, rather than inversely, related with arterial pressure. The
weakness of this study is that the study group is composed by a selected
group of children (with suspected renal disease) and that renal length may
be a poor indicator of nephron number.
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H: Diagnosis :
Preadolescent and adolescent
H: Pathophysiology :
Kidney in hypertension