The combined effect of aortic stiffness and pressure wave reflections on mortality in the very old with cardiovascular disease: The PROTEGER Study

Hypertension Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 803-808

  Protogerou, Athanase D ^a   Safar, Michel E ^b   Papaioannou, Theodoros G ^c   Zhang, Yi ^b   Agnoletti, Davide ^b   Papadogiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Blacher, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

arterial stiffness; elderly; mortality; pressure wave reflections

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PULSE WAVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 79960026718     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.33     Document Type: Article

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