Limitations of Augmentation Index in the Assessment of Wave Reflection in Normotensive Healthy Individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hughes, Alun D ^a   Park, Chloe ^a   Davies, Justin ^a   Francis, Darrel ^a   McG Thom, Simon A ^a   Mayet, Jamil ^a   Parker, Kim H ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875436821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059371     Document Type: Article

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