The impact of pulse wave velocity in a Japanese population with metabolic syndrome

Hypertension Research

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1045-1046

  Hirashiki, Akihiro ^a   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NOTE; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; PULSE WAVE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 73849123504     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.182     Document Type: Note

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