How Stiff Are Your Arteries? An Emerging Vital Sign for Determining Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 745-751

  Barksdale, Debra J ^a   Logan, Jeongok G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

arterial stiffness; cardiovascular risk; hypertension; pulse wave analysis; pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549116062     PISSN: 15554155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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