Hour-to-hour and week-to-week variability and reproducibility of wave reflection indices derived by aortic pulse wave analysis: Implications for studies with repeated measurements

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1678-1686

  Papaioannou, Theodore G ^a,b,d   Karatzis, Emmanouil N ^b   Karatzi, Kalliopi N ^c   Gialafos, Elias J ^a   Protogerou, Athanassios D ^b   Stamatelopoulos, Kimon S ^b   Papamichael, Christos M ^b   Lekakis, John P ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos I ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Applanation tonometry; Arterial stiffness; Augmentation index; Central aortic pressures; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Pulse wave analysis; Reproducibility; Sphygmocor; Transfer functions; Variability; Wave reflections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TONOMETRY;

EID: 34447296419     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e3281ab6c58     Document Type: Article

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