Racial differences in ambulatory blood pressure and echocardiographic left ventricular geometry

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 315, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Olutade, Babatunde O ^a   David Gbadebo, T ^a   Porter, Vivian D ^a   Wilkening, Beth ^a   Dallas Hall, W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Echocardiography; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Race

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0345628013     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199802000-00006     Document Type: Article

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