Amplification of the pressure pulse in the upper limb in healthy, middle-aged men and women

Hypertension

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 414-420

  Segers, Patrick ^a,c   Mahieu, Dries ^b   Kips, Jan ^a,b   Rietzschel, Ernst ^d   De Buyzere, Marc ^d   De Bacquer, Dirk ^d   Bekaert, Sofie ^c   De Backer, Guy ^d   Gillebert, Thierry ^d   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Van Bortel, Luc ^b  

^a Institute of Biomedical Technology   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiovascular physiology; Hemodynamics; Large arteries; Wave reflection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE PRESSURE AMPLIFICATION; RADIAL ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONOMETRY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION; CAROTID ARTERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CALIBRATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RADIAL ARTERY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 68549098079     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.133009     Document Type: Article

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