A developmental approach to the prevention of hypertension and kidney disease: a report from the Low Birth Weight and Nephron Number Working Group

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ² Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases Aldo e Cele Daccò, IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy.
• ³ Unit of Neonatology, Sant'Anna Clinic, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, AFaR Division, Fatebenefratelli Foundation, "San Giovanni Calibita" Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
• ⁶ Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Hospital "L Sacco", and Centre for Fetal Research Giorgio Pardi, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ⁷ Service de Pédiatrie, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Development and Regeneration KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, Haugesund Hospital, Haugesund, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹⁰ Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹¹ School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
• ¹² Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
• ¹³ Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases Aldo e Cele Daccò, IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy; Centro Anna Maria Astori, Science and Technology Park Kilometro rosso, IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy; Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: giuseppe.remuzzi@marionegri.it.
• ¹⁴ Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.