Recent insights from studies using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in patients with renal disease

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 645-648

  Covic, Adrian ^a   Haydar, Ali A ^b   Goldsmith, David J A ^b  

^a CI Parhon Hospital   (Romania)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Dialysis; Hypertension; Kidney failure; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIALYSIS; ERROR; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROALBUMINURIA; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SLEEP; SURVIVAL;

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC;

EID: 0442323423     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041552-200311000-00012     Document Type: Review

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