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Prevalence of hypertension, obesity, hematuria and proteinuria amongst healthy adolescents living in Western Saudi Arabia

Kholoud A. Hothan, Bashaer A. Alasmari, Omniya K. Alkhelaiwi, Khalid M. Althagafi, Abdulaziz A. Alkhaldi, Ahmed K. Alfityani, Mohannad M. Aladawi, Sara N. Sharief, Sherif El Desoky and Jameela A. Kari
Saudi Medical Journal October 2016, 37 (10) 1120-1126; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14784
Kholoud A. Hothan
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bashaer A. Alasmari
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Omniya K. Alkhelaiwi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid M. Althagafi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulaziz A. Alkhaldi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed K. Alfityani
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohannad M. Aladawi
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Sara N. Sharief
From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sherif El Desoky
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Jameela A. Kari
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vol. 37 no. 10 1120-1126
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14784
PubMed 
27652364

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 12, 2016
  • Accepted July 28, 2016
  • Published online October 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Kholoud A. Hothan, MBChB,
  2. Bashaer A. Alasmari, MBChB,
  3. Omniya K. Alkhelaiwi, MBChB,
  4. Khalid M. Althagafi, MBChB,
  5. Abdulaziz A. Alkhaldi, MBChB,
  6. Ahmed K. Alfityani, MBChB,
  7. Mohannad M. Aladawi, MBChB,
  8. Sara N. Sharief, Medical Student,
  9. Sherif El Desoky, MRCPCH, MD and
  10. Jameela A. Kari, FRCP, MD⇑
  1. From the Department of Pediatrics (Hothan, Alasmari, Alkhelaiwi, Althagafi, Alkhaldi, Alfityani, Aladawi, Sharief, El Desoky, Kari) and the Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence (El Desoky, Kari), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Jameela A. Kari, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Center of Excellence, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: jkari{at}doctors.org.uk
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