Correlating ambulatory blood pressure measurements with arterial stiffness: A conceptual inconsistency? [1]

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Gavish, Benjamin ^a  

^a InterCure Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY TONE; ARTERY WALL; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; COMPLIANCE; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLE;

EID: 33751084303     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000248120.73770.26     Document Type: Letter

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