Could echocardiography yield a cardiovascular profile of the tinnitus prone subject?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 252-254

  Pirodda, Antonio ^a   Esposti, Daniela Degli ^a   Brandolini, Cristina ^a   Modugno, Giovanni Carlo ^a   Cosentino, Eugenio ^a   Borghi, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RISK FACTORS; TINNITUS;

EID: 37349026896     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.068     Document Type: Article

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