Influence of age, body mass index, and blood pressure on the carotid intima-media thickness in normotensive and hypertensive patients

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 159-162

  Honzikova, Natasa ^a   Labrova, Ruzena ^a   Fiser, Bohumil ^a   Maderova, Eva ^a   Novakova, Zuzana ^a   Zavodna, Eva ^a   Semrad, Borivoj ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Baroreflex sensitivity; Body mass; Carotid artery; Essential hypertension; Finger blood pressure

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BAROREFLEX SENSITIVITY; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FINGER BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SPECTROSCOPY; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INTIMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 34247262102     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2006.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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