Agreement between carotid and radial augmentation index: Does medication status affect the relation?

Artery Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 74-76

  Sugawara, Jun ^a,b   Komine, Hidehiko ^b   Hayashi, Koichiro ^b   Yoshizawa, Mutsuko ^b   Yokoi, Takashi ^b   Maeda, Seiji ^c   Tanaka, Hirofumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Applanation tonometry; Arterial stiffness; Blood pressure waveform

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIAL APPLANATION TONOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049156420     PISSN: 18729312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artres.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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