Rationale and methodology of monitoring ambulatory blood pressure and arterial compliance in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-8

  Pinto, Elisabete ^a   Bulpitt, Christopher ^a   Beckett, Nigel ^a   Peters, Ruth ^a   Staessen, Jan A ^c   Rajkumar, Chakravarthi ^a,b,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aged 80 years and above; Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Arterial compliance; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDAPAMIDE; OFFICE VISITS; PERINDOPRIL;

EID: 33745129406     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mbp.0000184965.30220.10     Document Type: Article

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