An epidemiological approach to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: The Belgian Population Study

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-26

  Staessen, Jan A ^a,e   Bieniaszewski, Leszek ^a,b   O'Brien, Eoin T ^c   Imai, Yutuka ^d   Fagard, Robert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Clinic blood pressure; Conventional sphygmomanometry; Home blood pressure; Population

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002644505     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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