Divergent retinal vascular abnormalities in normotensive persons and patients with never-treated, masked, white coat hypertension

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 318-325

  Triantafyllou, Areti ^a   Doumas, Michael ^a,b   Anyfanti, Panagiota ^a   Gkaliagkousi, Eugenia ^a   Zabulis, Xenophon ^c   Petidis, Konstantinos ^a   Gavriilaki, Eleni ^a   Karamaounas, Polykarpos ^c   Gkolias, Vasileios ^a   Pyrpasopoulou, Athina ^a   Haidich, Anna Bettina ^d   Zamboulis, Chrysanthos ^a   Douma, Stella ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; blood pressure; hypertension; masked hypertension; microcirculation; retinopathy; vessels; white coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CENTRAL RETINAL ARTERY EQUIVALENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASKED HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERIOLAR ABNORMALITY; RETINA DISEASE; RETINAL ARTERIOVENUS RATIO; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASKED HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

EID: 84876589647     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hps040     Document Type: Article

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