Is the area under blood pressure curve the best parameter to evaluate 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring data?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 263-270

  Nobre, Fernando ^a,b   Mion Jr , Décio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Unidade Clinica de Hipertensáo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Area under the blood pressure curve; Blood pressure load; Left ventricular mass index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYSTOLE;

EID: 27144555744     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mbp.0000180669.38161.6e     Document Type: Article

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