The white-coat response in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: Elimination and attenuation

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 481-484

  Prasad, Neeraj ^a,b   MacFadyen, Robert J ^a   Peebles, Lesley ^a   Anderson, June ^a   MacDonald, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; White coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012845785     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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