Arterial stiffness: A simplified overview in vascular medicine

Advances in Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-18

  Safar, Michel E ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCULATION; ELASTICITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; REVIEW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

AGING; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; PULSATILE FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROKE VOLUME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33751081521     PISSN: 00652326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000096699     Document Type: Review

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