Structural skin capillary rarefaction in essential hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 998-1001

  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

Capillaries; Hypertension, essential; Microcirculation; Rarefaction; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CAPILLARY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0032890953     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.33.4.998     Document Type: Article

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