Reproducibility of arterial stiffness indices (pulse wave velocity and augmentation index) simultaneously assessed by automated pulse wave analysis and their associated risk factors in essential hypertensive patients

Hypertension Research

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 851-857

  Matsui, Yoshio ^a   Kario, Kazuomi ^b   Ishikawa, Joji ^b   Eguchi, Kazuo ^b   Hoshide, Satoshi ^b   Shimada, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a Miwa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Augmentation index; Automated pulse wave analysis; Hypertension; Pulse wave velocity; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY HEIGHT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PREDICTION; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSATILE FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 14644436456     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.27.851     Document Type: Article

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