Pulse pressure determines left atrial enlargement in non-dipper patients with never-treated essential hypertension

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 897-899

  Triantafyllidi, H ^a   Ikonomidis, I ^a   Lekakis, J ^a   Panou, F ^a   Georgoula, G ^a   Fountoulaki, K ^a   Kremastinos, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PULSE PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 35648968085     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1002236     Document Type: Article

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