Wrist measurement of blood pressure: Some critical remarks to oscillometry

Kidney and Blood Pressure Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Weber, Franz ^a   Erbel, R ^b   Schafers R ^b   Philipp, Th ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic blood pressure; Blood pressure measurement; Oscillometry; Wrist blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WRIST;

EID: 0032785211     PISSN: 14204096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000025923     Document Type: Article

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