Ankle-arm blood pressure index and cardiovascular risk factors in elderly Japanese men

Hypertension Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 377-382

  Cui, Renzhe ^a   Iso, Hiroyasu ^a   Yamagishi, Kazumasa ^a   Tanigawa, Takeshi ^a   Imano, Hronori ^b   Ohira, Tetsuya ^b   Kitamura, Akihiko ^b   Sato, Shinichi ^b   Naito, Yoshihiko ^b   Shimamoto, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ankle arm index; cardiovascular risk factors; Cross sectional studies; Japanese

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE; ARM; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECG ABNORMALITY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIBIAL ARTERY; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE; ARM; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 12444343140     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.26.377     Document Type: Article

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