Comments on the reproducibility of Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index and QKD

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 435-436

  Gosse, Philippe ^a   Coulon, Paul ^a   Dauphinot, Virginie ^b   Papaioannou, Georgios ^a   Lemetayer, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY ARTERIAL STIFFNESS INDEX; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS KOROTKOFF DELAY INDEX; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ARTERY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ARTERIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 63849134924     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32831c84c6     Document Type: Letter

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