Association of QT interval with blood pressure in 80-year-old subjects

Hypertension Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 387-391

  Matsumura, Kiyoshi ^a   Takata, Yutaka ^b   Ansai, Toshihiro ^b   Awano, Shuji ^b   Takehara, Tadamichi ^b   Fujii, Koji ^a   Iida, Mitsuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged; Blood pressure; Eighty years old; Japanese; QT interval

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL HEALTH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; QT PROLONGATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242879087     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.27.387     Document Type: Article

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