Impaired skin capillary recruitment in essential hypertension is caused by both functional and structural capillary rarefaction

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 238-242

  Serné, Erik H ^a   Gans, Reinold O B ^a   Ter Maaten, Jan C ^a   Tangelder, Geert Jan ^a   Donker, Ab J M ^a   Stehouwer, Coen D A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Hypertension, essential; Microcirculation; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CAPILLARY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035569049     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.38.2.238     Document Type: Article

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