Detection of atrial fibrillation using a modified microlife blood pressure monitor

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 848-852

  Wiesel, Joseph ^a   Fitzig, Lorenzo ^a   Herschman, Yehuda ^b   Messineo, Frank C ^a  

^a NEW YORK HOSPITAL QUEENS   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; SPHYGMOMANOMETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE;

EID: 68149099055     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2009.98     Document Type: Article

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