Arterial stiffness: Using simple surrogate measures to make sense of a biologically complex phenomenon

Hypertension Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-156

  Lewandowski, Adam James ^a   Pitcher, Alex ^a   Banerjee, Rajarshi ^a   Leeson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; ENDOTHELIUM; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPH; POPULATION RISK; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REYNOLDS RISK SCORE; SHEAR STRESS; STROKE; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY;

ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84856739067     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.197     Document Type: Note

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