Response to flawed measurement of brachial tonometry for calculating aortic pressure?

Hypertension

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Segers, Patrick ^a   Mahieu, Dries ^b   Kips, Jan ^a,b   Rietzschel, Ernst ^c   De Buyzere, Marc ^c   Van Bortel, Luc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; LETTER; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY;

EID: 72049092262     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.140046     Document Type: Letter

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