The application of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity as a clinical tool for cardiovascular risk assessment

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tomiyama, Hirofumi ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ELASTICITY; HUMANS;

EID: 84868191092     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.201806     Document Type: Letter

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