Stress-induced cardiovascular reactivity and atherogenesis in adolescents.

Objective: To examine the association between cardiovascular reactivity to a set of psychological stressors and carotid artery intima-media thickness, a marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease in healthy adolescents.

Methods: Participants were 25 boys and 23 girls age 14.2 ± 0.

Lithium-induced membranous glomerulonephropathy in a pediatric patient.

Lithium-induced glomerular toxicity is an infrequent occurrence in pediatric patients. We report a 13-year-old patient presenting with clinical and laboratory evidence of renal insufficiency after long-term lithium use. Biopsy revealed membranous glomerulonephropathy.