Clinical significance and reproducibility of new arterial distensibility index

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-94

  Kubozono, Takuro ^a   Miyata, Masaaki ^a   Ueyama, Kiyo ^a   Nagaki, Aya ^a   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a   Kusano, Ken ^b   Kubozono, Osamu ^b   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima Kouseiren Medical Health Care Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brachial ankle pulse wave velocity; Cardio ankle vascular index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; ARM; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846001725     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.89     Document Type: Article

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