Topography and severity of coronary artery disease in white-coat hypertension

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-284

  Kostandonis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Papadopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Toumanidis, Savvas ^a   Papamichael, Christos ^a   Kanakakis, Ioannis ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Gensini score; Intima media thickness; White coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 42749084337     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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