How well do office and exercise blood pressures predict sustained hypertension? A Dundee Step Test study

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 429-433

  Lim, Pitt O ^a,b   Donnan, P T ^a   Macdonald, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Diagnosis; Exercise; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0033929768     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001041     Document Type: Article

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