Ability of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and myocardial/carotid ultrasound to predict the location and the severity of coronary artery lesions in normotensive patients: A clinical study

Hypertension Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 741-749

  Konstandonis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Papadopoulos, Vassilios P ^b,c   Toumanidis, Savvas T ^a   Papamichael, Christos M ^a   Kanakakis, Ioannis E ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Coronary artery disease; Gensini score; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGHT; PREDICTION; PULSE PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34948840930     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.30.741     Document Type: Article

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