Prevalence of hypertension and rate of blood pressure control as assessed by home blood pressure measurements in a rural Japanese community, Ohasama

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 713-728

  Nagai, Kenichi ^b   Imai, Yutaka ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Sakuma, Mariko ^a   Watanabe, Noriko ^a   Kato, Junko ^a   Kikuchi, Noriko ^a   Nishiyama, Akimitsu ^a   Sekino, Makoto ^a   Itoh, Osamu ^b   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a   Abe, Keishi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ohasama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

home blood pressure measurements; screening blood pressure; sensitivity; specificity; white coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCREENING;

EID: 15844409179     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641969609081776     Document Type: Article

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