Measuring blood pressure in the forearm of obese patients: Concordance with arm measurement;Concordancia de la determinación de la presión arterial en el brazo y en el antebrazo de pacientes obesos

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 213-214

  Vinyoles, Ernest ^a   Pujol, Enriqueta ^a   De La Figuera, Mariano ^a   Tajada, Celia ^a   Montero, Pilar ^a   García, Daniel ^a  

^a CAP La Mina   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood pressure measurement; Hypertension; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED VALIDATION DEVICE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 15944396590     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13071766     Document Type: Article

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