Influences of age and gender on results of noninvasive brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity measurement - A survey of 12 517 subjects

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-309

  Tomiyama, Hirofumi ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^a   Arai, Tomio ^a   Hirose, Kenichi ^a   Koji, Yutaka ^a   Chikamori, Taishiro ^a   Hori, Saburoh ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshio ^c   Doba, Nobutaka ^d   Hinohara, Shigeaki ^d  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KAJIMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d Life Planning Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Pulse pressure; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 12244271084     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(02)00332-5     Document Type: Article

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