Blood pressure changes during pregnancy

Hypertension Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 563-564

  Ishikuro, Mami ^a   Obara, Taku ^a   Metoki, Hirohito ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^b,c   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a   Imai, Yutaka ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DELIVERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 84860738063     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2012.33     Document Type: Letter

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