Does "hidden undercuffing" occur among obese patients? Effect of arm sizes and other predictors of the difference between wrist and upper arm blood pressures

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-88

  Doshi, Hardik ^a   Weder, Alan B ^a   Bard, Robert L ^a   Brook, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HIDDEN UNDERCUFFING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STAGING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WRIST;

ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; BODY SIZE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WRIST;

EID: 75949086616     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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