Prognostic significance of blood pressure variability in essential hypertension

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-11

  Verdecchia, Paolo ^a   Borgioni, Claudia ^a   Ciucci, Antonella ^a   Gattobigio, Roberto ^a   Schillaci, Giuseppe ^b   Sacchi, Nicola ^b   Santucci, Antonella ^c   Santucci, Carla ^c   Reboldi, Giampaolo ^c   Porcellati, Carlo ^a  

^a Ospedale Silvestrini   (Italy)

^b Ospedale 'Beato G Villa'   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Prognosis; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002251767     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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