Methodological considerations in the evaluation of the duration of action of antihypertensive therapy using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 111-115

  Aboy, Mateo ^a,b   Fernández, José R ^b   Hermida, Ramón C ^b  

^a OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Antihypertensive therapy; Normalized smoothness index; Smoothness index; Trough:peak ratio

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; HYPERTENSION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOOTHNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROUGH PEAK RATIO;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 20844439015     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200506000-00001     Document Type: Review

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