Home blood pressure normalcy: The Didima study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 6 II SUPPL., 2000, Pages 678-685

  Stergiou, George S ^a   Thomopoulou, Georgia C ^a   Skeva, Irini I ^a   Mountokalakis, Theodore D ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood pressure measurement; Home blood pressure; Hypertension; Office blood pressure; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL VALUE; OSCILLOMETRY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033912970     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(99)00266-6     Document Type: Article

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