Is siesta masking masked hypertension?

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ben Dov, Iddo Z ^a   Bursztyn, Michael ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MASKED HYPERTENSION; NORMAL VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP; SPAIN; STANDARD; WAKEFULNESS; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION; AMBULATORY CARE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OFFICE VISITS; SLEEP;

EID: 34047201233     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000258797.25373.20     Document Type: Letter

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