Are narrower or wider retinal venules associated with incident hypertension? [3]

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Liew, Gerald ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,c   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENT HYPERTENSION; LETTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VEIN DIAMETER; VENULE;

AUSTRALIA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ODDS RATIO; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETINAL VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENULES;

EID: 33748174687     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000231652.97173.4c     Document Type: Letter

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