Selected Abstracts
Hypertension
Preadolescent and adolescent
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Renal mass and blood pressure in normal children
Genetics
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Deletion polymorphism of the ACE gene is a risk factor for target
organ damage in essential hypertension
Hormonal aberrations
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Atrial natriuretic peptide is reduced both in white and black
salt-sensitive hypertensives
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Endogenous erythropoietin correlates with arterial blood pressure in
essential hypertension
Kidney in hypertension
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Nephrosclerosis in the white: no correlation between hypertension and
renal histologic lesion
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Microalbuminuria and the renal vascular response to L-arginine
in essential hypertension
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Losartan reduces albuminuria in patients with essential
hypertension
Ambulatory monitoring
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Diurnal blood pressure variation in normotensive and hypertensive
children and adolescents
Tests for LVH
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Left ventricular hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction in non-
insulin dependent diabetic patients with and without diabetic nephropathy
Elderly
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Salt loading and hypertension in the elderly
Ethnic populations
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Nocturnal blood pressure in treated hypertensive African
Americans compared to treated hypertensive European Americans
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Do racial differences exist for early target organ damage in
essential hypertension
Renovascular hypertension
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Outcomes and risks of renal revascularization in azotemic
atherosclerotic patients
Renal transplant patients
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In kidney transplanted patients developing graft renal artery
stenosis erythrosis appears before blood pressure increases
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Cyclosporine A-induced salt sensitive hypertension: role of nitric
oxide
Women
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Birth weight and adult hypertension in women
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Second trimester 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: can it
predict the development of hypertension in primigravidae?
ACE inhibitors
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Prolonged treatment with the renin inhibitor Remikiren in hypertensive
patients with different degrees of impaired renal function
Alpha and alpha/beta blockers
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Captopril and doxasozin induce similar change in renal
hemodynamics in hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus
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