Blood pressure variability: A confounder and a cardiovascular risk factor

Hypertension Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 162-163

  Papadogiannis, Dimitris E ^a   Protogerou, Athanase D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONOTHERAPY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79751491206     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.223     Document Type: Note

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