Reference values of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity for Northern Chinese

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2103-2106

  Wang, Xian ^a   Xie, Jiang ^b   Zhang, Li Jing ^c   Hu, Da Yi ^a   Luo, Ya Li ^a   Wang, Jin Wen ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Cardiology   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Brachial ankle pulse wave velocity; Reference value

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSE WAVE; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 70350580592     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.18.005     Document Type: Article

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