The measurement of diastolic blood pressure in children: K4 or K5? What the journals do

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 747-748

  Griffiths, S J ^a   Beevers, D G ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; CHILD; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0034763364     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001250     Document Type: Letter

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