Night-time blood pressure: Dipping into the future?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2131-2133

  Stolarz, Katarzyna ^a,b   Staessen, Jan A ^a,d   O'Brien, Eoin T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACTIMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NIGHT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036853694     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200211000-00006     Document Type: Note

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