Rarefaction of Skin Capillaries in Borderline Essential Hypertension Suggests an Early Structural Abnormality

Hypertension

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 655-658

  Antonios, Tarek F T ^a   Singer, Donald R J ^a   Markandu, Nirmala D ^a   Mortimer, Peter S ^a   MacGregor, Graham A ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood vessels, rarefaction; Capillaries; Essential; Hypertension; Microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CAPILLARY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032702004     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.34.4.655     Document Type: Article

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