Arterial stiffness and wave reflections in marathon runners

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 974-979

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Kardara, Despina ^a   Anastasakis, Aris ^a   Baou, Katerina ^a   Terentes Printzios, Dimitrios ^a   Tousoulis, Dimitris ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a Unit of Inherited Cardiac Diseases   (Greece)

Author keywords

arterial stiffness; augmentation index; blood pressure; exercise; hypertension; marathon; pulse wave velocity; wave reflections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; AORTA; ARTERIES; ATHLETES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; RUNNING; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 77955982369     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2010.99     Document Type: Article

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