Arterial stiffness and carotid intima-media thickness: Together they stand

Hypertension Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-292

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Terentes Printzios, Dimitrios ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOTE; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ARTERIES; COMPLIANCE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 77950490116     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.20     Document Type: Note

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