Reference values of aortic pulse wave velocity in a large healthy population aged between 3 and 18 years

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2314-2321

  Hidvégi, Erzsébet Valéria ^a   Illyés, Miklós ^a   Benczúr, Béla ^a   Böcskei, Renáta M ^a   Rátgéber, László ^b   Lenkey, Zsófia ^a   Molnár, Ferenc T ^c   Cziráki, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

aorta; Arteriograph; blood pressure; children and adolescents; pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHILD; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONOMETRY;

EID: 84870249879     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: 14735598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328359562c     Document Type: Article

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