Blood pressure variability: Methodological aspects, mechanisms and clinical relevance

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 1-2, 1996, Pages

  Parati, Gianfranco ^a,b,e   Di Rienzo, Marco ^c   Ulian, Luisa ^b   Santucciu, Cinzia ^b   Tortorici, Elena ^a   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,b,d  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Istituto Scientific Auxologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Arterial baroreflexes; Blood pressure variability; Cardiovascular risk; Heart rate variability; Hypertension; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842486117     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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