The position of the arm during blood pressure measurement in sitting position

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 309-313

  Adiyaman, Ahmet ^a   Verhoeff, Rutger ^a   Lenders, Jacques W M ^a   Deinum, Jaap ^a   Thien, Theo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arm positioning; Blood pressure measurement; Guidelines; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHAIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33751051083     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mbp.0000218007.57957.56     Document Type: Article

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