Location of a reflection site is elusive: Consequences for the calculation of aortic pulse wave velocity

Hypertension

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 478-483

  Westerhof, Berend E ^a,e   Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen P ^b   Murgo, Joseph P ^c   Westerhof, Nicolaas ^d  

^a BMEYE BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Arteries; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Vascular

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; TUBE; VASCULARIZATION; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PULSATILE FLOW;

AGING; ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 52049115870     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.116525     Document Type: Article

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