Central blood pressure: Getting to the heart of the matter

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-239

  Schillaci, Giuseppe ^a   Grassi, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE PRESSURE; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 75149135240     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e3283359509     Document Type: Note

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