Left ventricular geometry, ambulatory blood pressure and extra-cardiac organ damage in untreated essential hypertension

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 124-131

  Cuspidi, Cesare ^a,b   Giudici, Valentina ^b   Negri, Francesca ^a,b   Sala, Carla ^c   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Concentric geometry; Extra cardiac organ damage

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 77952429926     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e328337ceeb     Document Type: Article

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