Phthalates cause a low-renin phenotype commonly found in premature infants with idiopathic neonatal hypertension.

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Since the 1970s, when the initial reports of neonatal hypertension related to renal artery thromboembolism were published, other secondary causes of neonatal hypertension have been reported. Those infants with no identifiable cause of hypertension were labeled with a variety of terms. Herein, we describe such infants as having idiopathic neonatal hypertension (INH). Most, but not all, of these hypertensive...

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