Ambulatory blood pressure normality: Experience in the Ohasama study

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 185-188

  Imai, Yutaka ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Cohort study; Prognosis; Reference values

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE;

EID: 0031784712     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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