Is ambulatory blood pressure monitoring coming of age as an instrument in epidemiology? An overview

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 61-64

  Staessen, Jan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TARGET ORGAN;

EID: 0030837142     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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