Aortic stiffness: Prime time for integration into clinical practice?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 385-390

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Alexopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic stiffness; Cardiovascular risk; Prognosis; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSE WAVE;

AGING; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 78049349528     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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