The relationship between pulse wave velocity and pulse pressure in Chinese patients with essential hypertension

Hypertension Research

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 871-874

  Ni, Yongbin ^b   Wang, Hongyu ^b   Hu, Dayi ^b   Zhang, Weizhong ^a  

^a Shanghai Institute of Hypertension   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Carotid femoral pulse wave velocity; Essential hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE;

EID: 0345530949     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.26.871     Document Type: Article

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