Impact of prehypertension on carotid artery intima-media thickening: Actual or masked?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 215-219

  Manios, Efstathios ^a   Michas, Fotios ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b   Stamatelopoulos, Kimon ^a   Tsagalis, Georgios ^a   Koroboki, Eleni ^a   Alexaki, Eleftheria ^a   Papamichael, Christos ^a   Vemmos, Konstantinos ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Intima media thickness; Prehypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CAROTID ARTERY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREHYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLE; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650819605     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.10.032     Document Type: Article

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