Automated oscillometric blood pressure versus auscultatory blood pressure as a predictor of carotid intima-medial thickness in male firefighters

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 588-590

  Campbell, N R C ^a   McKay, D W ^b   Conradson, H ^a   Lonn, E ^c   Title, L M ^d   Anderson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OSCILLOMETRY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 34347385634     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1002190     Document Type: Article

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