Aortic elastic properties in young pregnant women

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-41

  Ulusoy, Rifat Eralp ^a,b   Demiralp, Ergun ^a   Kirilmaz, Ata ^a   Kilicaslan, Fethi ^a   Ozmen, Namik ^a   Kucukarslan, Nezihi ^a   Kardesoglu, Ejder ^a   Tutuncu, Levent ^a   Keskin, Ozcan ^a   Cebeci, Bekir Sitki ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic elastic properties; Arterial elasticity; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AORTA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 31744432721     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-005-0872-2     Document Type: Article

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