Antihypertensive therapy and central hemodynamics in women with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 646-654

  Khalil, Asma ^b   Jauniaux, Eric ^a   Harrington, Kevin ^a  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; METHYLDOPA; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TONOMETRY; ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DRUG EFFECT; ELASTICITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; METHYLDOPA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 64249145543     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318197c392     Document Type: Article

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