Determinants of the structure of resistance-sized arteries in hypertensive patients

Blood Pressure

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 204-211

  Boari, Gianluca E M ^a   Rizzardi, Nicola ^a   de Ciuceis, Carolina ^a   Platto, Caterina ^a   Paiardi, Silvia ^a   Porteri, Enzo ^a   Paini, Anna ^a   Salvetti, Massimo ^a   Muiesan, Maria Lorenza ^a   Rizzoni, Damiano ^a   Rosei, Enrico Agabiti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Determinants; Media to lumen ratio; Microcirculation; Predictors; Small arteries structure

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; GLUCOSE; SODIUM; UREA; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MYOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ABDOMEN; ARTERY; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BUTTOCK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; BIOPSY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BUTTOCKS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATININE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SODIUM; STROKE VOLUME; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58949098390     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050802433735     Document Type: Article

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