Normality of ambulatory blood pressure

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 227-231

  Kuznetsova, Tatyana ^a   Emelianov, Dmitri ^a   Staessen, Jan A ^a,b  

^a KU LEUVEN DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Ambulatory monitoring; Conventional blood pressure; Normality

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0033495795     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-199910000-00005     Document Type: Review

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