Use of pulse wave analysis to measure arterial stiffness in old age [9]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 475-476

  Soiza, Roy L ^a   Williams, David J P ^b   Crilly, Mike A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; TONOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 34547860440     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm070     Document Type: Letter

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