User-friendly tools to identify elevated blood pressure in children

Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 63-64

  Chiolero, Arnaud ^a   Paradis, Cilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 84873329056     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/18.2.63     Document Type: Note

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