Reviewed in the present article are over 150 family history studies of essential hypertension.
By comparing normotensive individuals with and without a family history of hypertension …

In 1995 according to registries of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States,
Japan, and most nations in industrialized Europe, diabetes melli-tus was the leading cause …

OBJECTIVE--To determine whether there are familial and genetic aspects of sodium-lithium
countertransport activity in red cells in diabetic nephropathy. DESIGN--Case-control study …

Poorly controlled insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is associated with elevated
basal plasma growth hormone (GH), disproportionally low insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) …

Increased sodium–lithium countertransport in erythrocytes is found in patients with insulin-
dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and nephropathy. To determine whether such an …

Familial, hemodynamic and metabolic factors in the predisposition to diabetic kidney
disease. Proteinuric diabetic patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and …

The rate of red blood cell sodium-lithium countertransport is elevated only in a subgroup of
patients with essential hypertension. We have therefore compared renal and cardiac …

Microalbuminuria predicts cardiovascular events in diabetic and nondiabetic patients. For a
better understanding of the physiopathological importance of microalbuminuria in …

1. Sodium-lithium countertransport activity in a standard assay, its sodium affinity constant
and maximum velocity were measured in erythrocytes from normal subjects and from …

Clustering of risk factors in hypertensive insulin-dependent diabetics with high sodium-
lithium countertransport. Diabetic nephropathy is more common in patients with a positive …