Obesity as an independent influential factor for reduced radial arterial wave reflection in a middle-aged Japanese male population

Hypertension Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 387-391

  Otsuka, Toshiaki ^a   Kawada, Tomoyuki ^a   Ibuki, Chikao ^b   Kusama, Yoshik ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL TAMA NAGAYAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; AUTOMATED APPLANATION TONOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SMOKING; TONOMETRY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 68249147696     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.33     Document Type: Article

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