Ambulatory arterial stiffness index is not a stiffness parameter but a ventriculo-arterial coupling factor [1]

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Westerhof, Nico ^a   Lankhaar, Jan Willem ^a   Westerhof, Berend E ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BMEYE BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; COMPLIANCE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 33846415070     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000254947.07458.90     Document Type: Letter

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