Central But Not Brachial Blood Pressure Predicts Cardiovascular Events in an Unselected Geriatric Population. The ICARe Dicomano Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 2432-2439

  Pini, Riccardo ^a   Cavallini, M Chiara ^a   Palmieri, Vittorio ^b   Marchionni, Niccolò ^a   Di Bari, Mauro ^a   Devereux, Richard B ^b   Masotti, Giulio ^a   Roman, Mary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 44949102269     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.03.031     Document Type: Article

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