Response to correlating ambulatory blood pressure measurements with arterial stiffness: A conceptual inconsistency [2]

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Li, Yan ^a   Wang, Ji Guang ^a   Dolan, Eamon ^b   O'Brien, Eoin ^c   Thijs, Lutgarde ^d   Nawrot, Tim ^d   Staessen, Jan A ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY TONE; ARTERY WALL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 33751105210     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000248121.29383.6e     Document Type: Letter

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