Low diastolic blood pressure and atherosclerosis in elderly subjects: The Rotterdam Study

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 843-848

  Bots, Michiel L ^a   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RISK FACTORS; SUBURBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0029875664     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.8.843     Document Type: Article

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